Mary-france
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Q: iPhotos displaying images that Photos is not

Hi All!

 

I recently purchases a new iMac (yay!) and i moved the external drive that housed all my images and my iPhoto library to the new MAC and launched Photos to scan the drive and add all the images.

 

While most of the images are now appearing in Photos, all the monthly Photo Streams, as well as many other images that were manually loaded are not appearing in Photos. After i freaked a little that i lost all the photos, i took the drive, and plugged back into the old iMac, launched iPhoto again, and all the images are appearing.

 

Any idea how i can make sure everything migrates over to Photos? I even tried launching photos, and having it rescan the entire drive and load everything new again, and these same chunks of images are missing.

 

Any advice?

 

Appreciate the help!

Mary-Frances

iPhoto '11, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Sep 25, 2015 6:46 AM

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Sep 25, 2015 6:53 AM in response to Mary-france
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    Sep 25, 2015 6:53 AM in response to Mary-france
    and launched Photos to scan the drive and add all the images.

    How exactly did you do that?

    If you want to be sure, that Photos is opening and migrating the correct iPhoto Lilibary, drag the icon of your current iPhoto Library onto the Photos icon.

     

    Photos may have migrated a different library from your Pictures folder, if you did not point it to the library that needs migrating.

     

    And if your iPhoto library is on external drive, Photos may not be able to migrate it, if the drive has an incompatible file system. Is your external drive with the library formatted MAcOS Extended (Journaled), or does it have a different file system?

  • by LarryHN,Helpful

    LarryHN LarryHN Sep 25, 2015 7:05 AM in response to Mary-france
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    Sep 25, 2015 7:05 AM in response to Mary-france

    There are all there - just different ways of viewing

     

    as a start read - How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support

     

     

     

    There are no events in Photos - moments are the new events and therefore there is not a monthly PS event - PS photos are simply in their place in Moments

     

    Photos is sorted by time/date - All Photos is sorted by data added (if that is available -for the initial migration it is not)

     

    LN

  • by Mary-france,

    Mary-france Mary-france Sep 25, 2015 7:08 AM in response to léonie
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    Sep 25, 2015 7:08 AM in response to léonie

    I launched Photos, it asked if i wanted to create a new Photos library, i said yes, and it asked for the folder where the photos were and i pointed t the drive.

     

    For your suggestion it sounds like i need to delete photos, and start from scratch again, correct? Once a photos library is created, you cannot create a second photos library, right?

     

    I will try to drag the icon of the photos library - i did not try that - i just loaded fresh. Which puzzles me because if the pictures are there, they should have loaded.

     

    Thanks!!

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 25, 2015 7:59 AM in response to Mary-france
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    Sep 25, 2015 7:59 AM in response to Mary-france
    I launched Photos, it asked if i wanted to create a new Photos library, i said yes, and it asked for the folder where the photos were and i pointed t the drive.

    If Photos could open the iPhoto Library on the external drive, then check first LarryHN's recommendation. Your photos should be there, only differently arranged.  The best starting point to search might be the folder "iPhoto Events".

    See this:  How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support

     

    Only, if you really cannot find all your events in your current Photos Library, migrate the library again from your original iPhoto Library, but repair the iPhoto Library first.