jsharrow

Q: iphoto to photos

Recently I rebuilt my entire computer. Re-installed the system. Before doing so I cloned my computer with super-duper. I had a lot of photos in iPhoto on my old system.

 

My new system is Yosemite and has the Photos app.

 

How do I import from the old iPhoto app on my back-up to the new photos app?

 

My old iPhoto was not using the cloud.

 

Thank you

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on May 6, 2015 1:29 PM

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  • by jsharrow,

    jsharrow jsharrow May 18, 2015 7:45 PM in response to petermac87
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    May 18, 2015 7:45 PM in response to petermac87

    Shoot, it's not over! Grrr, thought I was skipping on my way to a happy photo library. Then ...

     

    When I opened up Photos and the back-up drive I thought I have pulled pictures from was not attached to my computer, photos got confused and could not find a library. Seems, when I chose the iPhoto library to update, photos updated the correct iPhoto library from my external backup, and save the new photos library on the external drive instead of on my computer that photos is running on.

     

    Please tell me there is a setting I missed and can just redirect ...

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 18, 2015 9:09 PM in response to jsharrow
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    May 18, 2015 9:09 PM in response to jsharrow

    Sorry but with all of the threadJackers and trolls posting in this thread I can not even find your original question - I suggest that you start a new thread (click on the word "new" t the right of the "Apple Support Community" banner at the top of this page  - include all details ( Writing an effective Apple Support Communities question )  - posting in a convoluted solved thread is not a good way to get answers to your specific question

     

    LN

  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R May 19, 2015 1:20 AM in response to jsharrow
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    May 19, 2015 1:20 AM in response to jsharrow

    jsharrow wrote:

    When I opened up Photos and the back-up drive I thought I have pulled pictures from was not attached to my computer, photos got confused and could not find a library.

    Photos wasn't confused; there is no way it can find a Library on a drive that isn't attached to your Mac! In that case, unless you hold down the option key when you launch it so you can choose an available one, it will create a new, empty Library on the startup drive.

    Seems, when I chose the iPhoto library to update, photos updated the correct iPhoto library from my external backup, and save the new photos library on the external drive instead of on my computer that photos is running on.

    During migration from iPhotos, Photos creates the new Photos Library on the same drive as the iPhotos one. The assumption is that if the iPhoto Library is on another drive, that is probably because that's where the user wants it, & because the hard links that reduce the amount of storage space required can't span two different drives.

    Please tell me there is a setting I missed and can just redirect ...

    Assuming you have enough space on your startup drive for the entire Photos Library & that is where you want it, just copy the entire Photos Library from the external drive to your startup one. The normal location for it is in your Pictures folder, so if that is what you want, just drag the Photos Library from the external into your Pictures folder & drop it there. Then launch Photos with the option key held down, select the library on your startup drive, & in preferences, make it the System Photo Library.

     

    Otherwise, use the option key launch method to reselect the library on the external & make it the System Photo Library if necessary ... & remember to keep the external drive connected whenever you use Photos!

  • by jsharrow,

    jsharrow jsharrow May 19, 2015 5:45 AM in response to R C-R
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    May 19, 2015 5:45 AM in response to R C-R

    I don't want to keep the external drive attached when running photos.

     

    The computer had been backed up before doing a system rebuild. My computer's drive has lot's of space. I wanted to import the old iPhoto content into photos on my hard drive on my computer. When I did the migration, holding down the option button, and choosing the old iPhoto from the external drive, I was not expecting the new photos library to be stored on the external drive and not on my new system. I would like to consolidate a few libraries in photos on my newly cleaned up computer.

     

    Any hints on how to do this correctly?

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