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Q: I have just downloaded the latest update, to find that iPhoto has, without warning, been replaced with Photos. I have 15K  photos, taken over 13 years. All had identifying tags in iPhoto; all of those tags have been lost! How do I retrieve them?

I have just downloaded the latest Yosemite update. Without any warning, I find that iPhoto has disappeared, to be replaced by Photos. I have 15K+ photos, taken over 13 years; all had been marked with identifying tags. I now find that, apart from some albums, all the identifiers have been lost; I am bereft and furious!!

Does anyone know how I can retrieve the lost information, or, better still, return to iPhoto?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Apr 29, 2015 6:26 AM

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  • by notcloudy,

    notcloudy notcloudy Apr 29, 2015 6:32 AM in response to Classical Music Fan
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    Apr 29, 2015 6:32 AM in response to Classical Music Fan

    see following Photo support pages.

     

     

    photo getting started

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204655

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204410

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204414

  • by Alley_Cat,

    Alley_Cat Alley_Cat Apr 29, 2015 6:35 AM in response to Classical Music Fan
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    Apr 29, 2015 6:35 AM in response to Classical Music Fan

    You should still be able to open iPhoto from Applications unless you had an older version incompatible with 10.10.3

     

    If you've deleted iPhoto you may be able to redownload from App Store Purchases section.  If it says update you may need to delete the existing iphoto app then go back to App Store and Install the latest version afresh.

  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R Apr 29, 2015 7:12 AM in response to Classical Music Fan
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    Apr 29, 2015 7:12 AM in response to Classical Music Fan

    How did you add the now missing tags? In iPhoto or Aperture or with some other app? Photos retains IPTC metadata, including the tags it cannot display, & Exif metadata tags if present.

     

    However, any tags not stored ("embedded") in the photo or video files themselves are not transferred between apps, so for example Finder tags will not be transferred.

  • by Classical Music Fan,

    Classical Music Fan Classical Music Fan Apr 30, 2015 4:30 AM in response to notcloudy
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    Apr 30, 2015 4:30 AM in response to notcloudy

    Thanks for your advice. I have managed to retrieve iPhoto, by clicking on the Apple logo, going to "Recents" and clicking on iPhoto, while holding down the "cmd" key.

    This has restored my original programme, complete with all the titles and categories - Phew!

    I am still annoyed with Apple, for effectively replacing a very good photo management programme with one which seems much less sophisticated; (no histogram, for example).  This sort of arbitrary action is much more in keeping with Apple's competitors, than how Apple themselves have behaved in the past!

    As for storage in iCloud, my photo library comprises a great many RAW files, which iPads can't handle  and amounts to 179Gb! It's backed up onto 2 separate external drives, so why on earth would I want to spend a small fortune buying all that extra Cloud storage?

  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R Apr 30, 2015 7:42 AM in response to Classical Music Fan
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    Apr 30, 2015 7:42 AM in response to Classical Music Fan

    FWIW, there is a histogram in the Photos Edit mode, but (like several other, more sophisticated editing tools) it is initially hidden. To show it, you click on the word "Add" in blue at the top right of the Edit window. Also, the "Adjust" tool has multiple levels of adjustment for most of the tools. With all the "Adjust" tools added & opened up to their full extent, there are several dozen adjustments you can make, far more than iPhotos very limited tools allow.