Revert to iPhoto from Photos

1. Go to your Applications folder

2. Click on iPhoto

(If your copy of iPhoto is not up to date it won't start, you will have to update it first) Your iPhoto Library is as it was prior to the Photos migration.

You're welcome.

Thank you, I am surprised that this was not available in any of the Support discussions.

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I bet that is posted 200 times or more in these forums since Photos was released

LN

100 of them are by me I think 🙂

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Confused by this. Switching to Photos has disabled iPhoto. Its icon in Applications has been replaced with a version with a no entry symbol.

If I try to open it, I get the message

but I already have the latest version for Yosemite (9.6) and I can't find a way to update it or even download it again.

You do not have the correct version of iPhoto, Yosemite requires 9.6.1, as is posted in this thread. Please read the thread, the answer you need is posted in it, as well as hundreds of others.

1. Drop your copy of iPhoto in the trash

2. From your purchases page download the new one

I had the same issue this is the fix. purchase button, & delete & restart download

This solved my question Solvedby tedster998 on Apr 12, 2015 3:53 PM

I now have iPhoto 9.6.1 installed, but I first had to upgrade to Yosemite.

Here's my history when trying with Mavericks: I wasn't able to update from iPhoto 9.5.1 while running Mavericks - as I mentioned in my first post, I would get an error message when I tried to update iPhoto in Mavericks. When I deleted the iPhoto app from my Mac still running Mavericks, and went to the App Store "Purchased" tab and clicked "Install" next to iPhoto, it would install the old version 9.5.1 in Mavericks.

I'll walk through the steps I took to successfully install iPhoto 9.6.1 - steps 2 & 3 were dead ends, but I chose to mention them here in case others take the same path perhaps they won't feel defeated.

1. Upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite.

2. After I upgraded my Mac to Yosemite, I started iPhoto but it told me that this version (9.5.1) isn't compatible with Yosemite (which I expected). It did give me the option to search the App Store for a compatible version, so I clicked on search and it told me the app isn't available in the U.S. app store.

3. Still running Yosemite, I went to the App Store "Purchased" tab and clicked the iPhoto "Update" button - but the update button had no effect and nothing happened.

4. Still running Yosemite, I deleted the iPhoto app from my Mac by moving it to the trash can and then I restarted my Mac. (I only removed the iPhoto app - I didn't remove or touch my photo library!) After my Mac restarted, I returned to the App Store "Purchased" tab and next to iPhoto was an "Install" button. I clicked Install and iPhoto successfully downloaded and installed 9.6.1. iPhoto is now working fine under Yosemite. iPhoto opened my photo library and all of my pictures are there. Everything looks normal.

Thanks everyone for your helpful suggestions!

Hi there. I tried looking for my iphoto in my computer and I don't know where to find it. I've looked everywhere. I really don't like Photos and want iphoto back. please help