Woodwyn
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Q: Bug Importing Albums From iPhoto!?

When I open Photos for the first time and import all of my iPhotos, everything seems to go well, but when I open Photos, only 1 or 2 of my iPhoto albums appear in Photos. Is there some trick to getting all of the albums form iPhoto to import? Is this a known bug that will be fixed in the near future?


I've got dozens of Albums that have been curated over the last decade in iPhoto that I can't just erase.

Posted on Sep 14, 2015 6:26 PM

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Q: Bug Importing Albums From iPhoto!?

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Sep 14, 2015 7:45 PM in response to Woodwyn
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    Sep 14, 2015 7:45 PM in response to Woodwyn

    are these albums or smart albums?

     

    Where arroyo looking for the albums? It might help to show the sidebar (I find that the best way to work) view menu ==> show sidebar.

     

    And that is no known bug on migrating albums (note you do not "Import" iPhoto libraries - you migrate them - if you were to import one you would have a total mess with no albums and multiple copies of photos and of face thumbnails, etc)

     

    see How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support

     

     

    LN

  • by Woodwyn,

    Woodwyn Woodwyn Sep 15, 2015 12:31 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Sep 15, 2015 12:31 PM in response to LarryHN

    These are regular albums I've manually organized, although there is one smart folder.

     

    I am using the album sidebar, but all of my previous iPhoto albums are not there.

     

    And you are right, I'm not importing from iPhoto, Basically all I'm doing is launching Photos for the first time and then letting it migrate my old iPhoto database. When it's done, as I say, very few of my albums are included. I'm aware it leaves my iPhoto database untouched, which is how I'm able to continue using iPhoto. When the Photos app didn't properly organize my iPhoto albums as they were, I deleted the Photos database and tried the migration process again, with the same results.

     

    And according to your link, all of those albums should appear. But they don't.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Sep 15, 2015 1:49 PM in response to Woodwyn
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    Sep 15, 2015 1:49 PM in response to Woodwyn

    they should

     

    Backup your iPhoto library and hold down the option and command keys while launching iPhoto - from the first aid window repair permission and then rebuild the database - then drag the rebuilt iPhoto library to the Photos icon in the docn=k and migrate again - hopefully this time it will work as advertised

     

    LN