Photos Slideshow Starting Position

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Photos Slideshow Starting Position

I have a Mac with the current Yosemite operating system, version 10.10.3, and Photos version 1.0.

I have set up a Project with a large number of photos in it. When viewing Slideshow of the Project, I often have to stop well into the presentation. How can I restart the slideshow at the photo that I last viewed? I highlighted the photo at the scroll bar at the bottom of the screen, and when i hit the Slideshow button, only that one photo is displayed. Otherwise, the Slideshow always commences at the very beginning. It is frustrating to hit the forward button to advance one photo at a time through to where I want to recommence the Slideshow (i.e. through hundreds of photos).

Photos help has nothing on the issue, nor was I able to find anything from the Apple support group. Similarly, a Google search provided no answers to my problem. Am I missing something completely on this issue??

I did not have this problem with iPhoto, and could restart the saved Slideshow midway through the presentation.

Is there any simple way to restart the Slideshow midway through the presentation?

Thank you.

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Posted on May 22, 2015 2:47 PM

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Answer 1

léonie

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May 22, 2015 11:33 PM in response to Westcoast Peter

Photos is just the version 1. of a very different application. It is a completely new designed and written program, not just an update to an existing program. It will need several cycles of updates until it will be as refined and mature as iPhoto is now. Give it time to develop.

Just compare the functionality: Photos vs iPhoto: Features and Capabilities

Right now, you may want to continue to use iPhoto or Aperture. Apple left iPhoto installed on purpose, when you updated to MacOS X 10.10.3. Both iPhoto and Aperture are still supported and working well with Yosemite, and Apple released compatibility updates. This way we can explore the new Photos, send feedback about missing features, but still work with a well developed application that supports all features we need for our workflow.

If you did not yet update to iPhoto 9.6.1, see this user tip:

Get iPhoto 9.6.1 if you didn't update before OS... | Apple Support Communities

who have large numbers of photos that Apple will now charge for storage on the iCloud.

You can have several Photos libraries. Create a small one with just the photos you want to sync to iCloud or see in your Media Browser, and a large library to keep locally with all your photos. Then your free 5GB iCloud storage will suffice.

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Answer 2

léonie

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May 22, 2015 3:02 PM in response to Westcoast Peter

The only way to resume a slideshow, that is documented in the Help is to hit the spacebar to pause the slideshow and to resume it by hitting the spacebar again. But that will not work, if you leave the slideshow. No way to resume later at the same position.

A quick and dirty way to start again at slide 100 or so would be to duplicate the slideshow and to delete the first 100 slides from the copy. But this will not work, if you have a sound track to your slideshow, then the music would be out of sync.

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Answer 3

May 22, 2015 3:47 PM in response to léonie

Thank you Leonie for the quick response.

I am quite frustrated with the new Photo. It seems to have lost a lot of the functionality from iPhoto. I have been trying to use Photo for several weeks, and cannot find any improvements over iPhoto, but have encountered a number of deficiencies. Apple touts the interconnectivity with iPhone, but it seems that the software has been dumbed down from the Mac to iPhone.

Using iCloud as the basis to connect Photo to other devices appears to be just another money-grab by Apple for those who have large numbers of photos that Apple will now charge for storage on the iCloud.

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Answer 4

léonie

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May 23, 2015 1:40 AM in response to léonie

The link above does not work: Try this: Can't Update iPhoto because it is not available in the App Store

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