I hate this new Photos!

Seems like you don't really know anything about iPhoto do you?

That was the problem with iPhoto - you lose all your metadata. Totally useless.

Photos and iPhoto are digital asset management systems. They are working well, as long as you do not interfere with the way they are managing the database. Access the photos only usin the provided interface. If you are not using software the way it intended to be used and are fighting it all the way, it it better to switch to a software that matches your intended workflow better.

I was running iOS 10.6.8 and upgraded to El Capitan last week. I too have several thousand pics. I was also very dissatisfied, and attempted to return to iPhoto but it told me my version was outdated, and to go to the App Store for an upgrade. However, when I did that it said it was no longer supported and no upgrades are available in the US. I'm beside myself. Not only the photos, but my videos have been converted to an unusable format and it now says if I convert them, they will probably be corrupted. If you find an answer - let us all know. This is a real issue with Apple this time - and it's certainly changing my way of thinking about them.

With El Capitan you need iPhoto 9.6.1.

You can only update, if you own an App Store version of iPhoto 9.x. Then you can update by reinstalling. But it is too late to buy iPhoto 9.x now, if you never upgraded to this version.

Had the iPhoto version that was in Snow Leopard and not sure which one that was. Now with the change to El Capitan, you can no longer see exactly what the features are when you go to Finder/Utilities/Applications as you could before. It seems with everything I try to do with this program I run into an issue. Very upset with it.

Select iPhoto in the Applications folder and press the key combination ⌘I to open the "Get Info" panel. This panel may sho the version number:

Yes but the concern is that Apple is no longer developing iPhoto. There won't be any bug fixes or future releases. Apple is basically saying "use Photos or good luck if you have any issue with iPhoto because we aren't going to help you." Which to me says I'm going to go with Adobe Lightroom.

Ok - Not sure why you are posting that here but what ever - what software you use is your choice and if you like one better than another then most certainly you should use the one you like - enjoy LR and Adobe support

LN

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SOGH wrote:

Thank you for your help!!! Like others i have my whole photo library set up how i like it and with the new "Photos" app everything was changed. I'm thrilled i came across your brilliance and instruction quickly. again, Thanks! have a great day! Shawn

Time to start looking for a replacement before you are forced to, iPhoto will stop working one day, better to be prepared for that day.

I don't know what happened to Photo on the iMac but... it's rubbish now.

Click on thumb size to look but... it doesn't expand.. who dreamed up this rubbish,9k of photos and I can't click on them to see them enlarged.. what is the use, did some wiz kid think up a new program for them in the last update.. Fool.

If you have a coherent, intelligent question start a new thread with details about what you have and what the problem is and post it and you can get help - if you just want to post rubbish please go away as there are people here who actually want assistance - since you can not even ask a question read this article to help you learn how to post a question that will be answered -- Writing an effective Apple Support Communities question

LN

Hang on Larry, first time here and just tagged on a Post as I didn't know where to go to start a new one!

Photos is the best place for questions about Photos, in other words here. Just start a new thread rather than hanging off the end of an existing one.

Me too...