Q: Events disappeared from Photos app and other problems...
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May 18, 2015 7:12 AMby léonie,All my events have disappeared - they're not in the left-hand menu, they're not anywhere. I'm at a loss what to do.
What do you mean? Are your photos missing or do you not see any albums in an iPhoto Events folder?
There are no events in Photos. Photos structures the library automatically into moments based on location and capture time.
iPhoto events are turned into albums and collected in a folder "iPhoto Events". Is this folder missing in the Album view?
See: How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support
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May 18, 2015 2:08 PMby léonie,HelpfulIt was there briefly after migration to Photos, but now it's not. Same on all devices.
There have been several reports, that the "iPhoto Events" folder vanished, after syncing with iCloud Photo Library had been enabled.
The event-albums seem to vanish, when iPads or iPhones start to sync with the iCloud Photo Library.
I have not seen any fix for this. Send a bug report to Apple. Apple - Photos - Feedback
You could try to restore the library from the last backup you made before the events vanished, or repeat the migration of your iPhoto Library. But that would require to sign out of iCloud Photo Library and to erase the content of the iCloud Photo Library and to upload all photos again.
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May 19, 2015 11:34 PMby léonie,HelpfulI've been thinking: is there any point in trying to rescue my Events? By that I mean do Events have much of a future in Photos or would I be better off grouping all the photos I previously had in Events into new albums?
The moments are the new events, and they are created automatically. True old-style events are most unlikely to come back. I hope we will one day be able to annotate the moments with custom names and descriptions like we could annotate events to add contents tags. I want to be able to name the moment with photos from a special day in New York "Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961" and not "New York, 727 5th Ave, 1961".
You may want to rescue the albums, that have been created from your events, if your events have descriptive names.
When I synced my larger Aperture/iPhoto library I noticed that most of my events albums in nested folders were empty when the syncing with iCloud started. They are slowly filling up again.
I would simply wait and meanwhile browse the original iPhoto Library in iPhoto to see the event names, until the syncing has finished and you know which album events have survived.
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May 20, 2015 12:30 AMby jossvam,Thank you again - your advice has been genuinely useful and reassuring.
Did you have any problems with upside-down and sideways photos after syncing? Hundreds of my images appear upside down in the Moments view, then right themselves when you click on them to view them. Then when you go back to Moments view, they 'snap' back to upside-down.
Most perplexing...
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May 20, 2015 2:30 AMby léonie,Did you have any problems with upside-down and sideways photos after syncing?
No, all photos are oriented correctly in my iCloud iCloud library. But there are still 25% percent waiting to be downloaded from iCloud.
Try if rotating back and forth will recreate correctly oriented thumbnails. Select some of the photos in question and press ⌘R, then ⇧⌘R.
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May 20, 2015 2:58 AMby jossvam,I've tried rotating them and yes, it does work. There are several hundred of them though so it'll take a while. Worth doing though. In fact, I tried doing them in bulk last night - I highlighted several hundred individual upside-down photos and then sneezed and let go of the Command key. Will do it in smaller batches from now on, I think...
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May 20, 2015 6:04 AMby léonie,I've tried rotating them and yes, it does work. There are several hundred of them though so it'll take a while. Worth doing though.
You can select several photos at once. It does not matter if you include photos with the correct rotation, when you just select a range of photos, since you are rotating back and forth.
