Q: Photos no longer opens migrated Aperture library
I migrated my old iPhoto and (much larger) Aperture libraries to Photos. Quite why these cannot easily be merged is beyond me. Anyway, after working fine for several months, Photos now refuses to open the migrated Aperture library, and will only open the Photos library. I suppose I could change the name of the Aperture library and re-import it, but are there any better ideas. And why did it do it in the first place?
Thanks, Paul
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD
Posted on Aug 17, 2015 2:26 AM
You do not understand
1 - you can not merge libraries with Photos (or with iPhoto for that matter)
2 - Photos does not work with any .migrated library - those are only used by the original applications - and when you open them with the original application the .migrated goes away because you can change the contents so it is no longer the same library that was migrated
3 - iPhoto and Aperture still both work as does Photos so you have three applications for photos now - and each has its own database with no connection to the others - changes made in any program are not reflected in an other program
4 - when you migrated each database a new photos database was created matching that migrated database (the .photoslibrary database) - each of these is self contained and you can not see the contents of one from another - you switch between them by double clicking on the desired one or by holding down the option key while launching Photos and using the select library window that appears
I hope that this helps
LN
Posted on Aug 17, 2015 8:58 AM