will iPhoto work with El Capitan ?

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Lex

iPhoto is not included anymore in ElCapitan. But it will run perfectly well.

Do as I said: drag the icon iPhoto from the dock, drag iPhoto in the Applications folder to the trash. In the purchased tab in Appstore select iPhoto and click install.

that will reinstall the latest version of iPhoto.

When you want to work on a different iPhoto Library, just double click on it and it will open iPhoto.

Hi Terence & thank you for the lengthy reply. I'll use your numbering to keep it simple...

1) - "It has not replaced either with Photos." That's sort of playing with semantics isn't it? If Apple have "...ceased development of iPhoto and Aperture." And now only produce one photo handling app that appeared at roughly the same time the other two were dropped then I think it's fair to say that the new app has replaced the old even if the new is "...going in a different direction."

2) - Yes, fully understand that you can use Photos without using iCloud. That would never be an option for me with a 1TB+ image library anyway.

3) - I looked at Photos in its earlier incarnations and found it to be a very poor cousin of iPhoto when it came to library management and organisation.

It has been designed more for devotees of the selfie so they can easily track what they shot where & post it to their various SM accounts from multiple devices...

My take anyway.

3) - (part 2) - Incorrect. When you install an OS update or upgrade it automatically installs Photos. No biggie there BUT... when you restart, as you have to after an update/upgrade, one of the first things that happens is that you get a splash-screen telling you your library is being updated by Photos & the only way to stop this update is through a force quit.
This is what I have been onto Apple support about a number of times. I don't have issue with the OS installing or updating an integrated app.

What I have a serious problem with is the OS forcibly updating my library without asking permission & then switching my default image handling to a different app.

It's very dodgy accounting practice on Apples side. You can just see the internal memos "User uptake of Photos app has been very high..."
Yes, it has, because Apple are forcing users to make the update.

4) - When I next update I plan to do that & see if it then keeps trying to forcibly update my library.

I, too prefer IPhoto. I'm running OS X 10.10.5 and can't get the updater to download the iPhoto 9.6.1 update...states it is unavailable. I've tried the trash it and reinstall workaround, but can't get it to work. Have you had any luck with that? Thank you!

Rector, One other question if I may...the last couple of times I did an OS update, it changes the default program to use for managing pictures to Photos instead of iPhoto. So, even if I get iPhoto working again with the update workaround, how do I get the OS to use iPhoto instead of Photo? In other words, how do you set iPhoto as the default picture application instead of Photo? Thanks again!

A "solution" in another thread gives how to get the last iPhoto update in ElCapitan:

drag iPhoto from the Applications folder into the Trash. Do'nt empty the Trash.

now open Appstore and select the Purchased tab. select iPhoto and click "install".

That is all, you have now the latest version installed again.

Lex

Start Photos, uncheck everything in the Preferences. Then connect your iDevice, Photos probably starts and shows your iDevice, you can select don't import photos..

Close Photos.

Open Finder, select a photo file, in GetInfo, "open with", select iPhoto and check the "change all" .

1) - "It has not replaced either with Photos." That's sort of playing with semantics isn't it? If Apple have "...ceased development of iPhoto and Aperture." And now only produce one photo handling app that appeared at roughly the same time the other two were dropped then I think it's fair to say that the new app has replaced the old even if the new is "...going in a different direction."

It's a common confusion but no, it's not a replacement. The key is in expectation. If the app was designed to replace the other two you would expect it to have the same capabilities but it doesn't. It's only a shadow of Aperture in both processing and management functions and has some similarities with iPhoto but a whole other set of cross platform capabilities, and richer processing capabilities. It's a photo manager, yes, but the mistake is to expect it to behave the same as the other two. It's also a free application. A giveaway, which neither of the other two were. That's also a clue as to how flexible and capable it might be.

What management features are you missing? It doesn't have Events but it does have Moments, which are quite similar. Pretty much everything else is the same - Albums, Smart Albums, Keywording and so on. No ratings, true, but easily replaceable by a (standards compliant) keyword system. It has the same searching and so on. It can work with managed or referenced images and has at least one tool iPhoto missed there - the ability to consolidate a library. You have the same options for storing libraries and masters as iPhoto, plus the iCloud option. I note your comment about selfies and can't help but comment, as I have before, that folks are entitled to use their cameras as they choose and selfies have been around a very long time...

I don't understand why you get a splash screen for Photos unless you launch it, or why it updates a Library if you don't have one. I have two machine here. One has a Photos Library and I never see anything unless I launch the app. The other has no Library and I never hear from Photos at all.

That worked! Thank you so much!!

great 🙂

Lex

I don't think you know what you are talking about. iPhoto crashes constantly in El Capitan. It has problems displaying full resolution photos and instead shows blown up thumbnails. The import function has also resulted in the loss of all the photos I was attempting to import from the computer and the camera. Moving to another solution is not trivial as you seem to suggest. The biggest stumbling block preventing me from using Photos is the elimination of the 5 star rating system which I used extensively to sort photos. To duplicate this sorting would literally take months and hundreds of hours of labor. Apple now only offers a favorite option which is fairly useless. My previous non-favorite option was called delete. Removing functionalities people grow to depend upon is bad behavior. Simply ignoring the El Capitan upgrade is also not a desirable option since proper functioning of all my devices in the ecosystem require the latest upgrade.