iPhoto not Installed, but wants to update? Photos App is Installed

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iPhoto not Installed, but wants to update? Photos App is Installed

I installed a couple of updates this afternoon and one of them came back with a message stating that "this item is temporarily unavailable". When I went and saw which one did not install, it ended up being iPhoto (which is not even installed on my Mac).

I have an iMac Early 2008 running Yosemite. I believe that one of the updates to Yosemite replaced iPhoto with the Photos app.

It looks like the update was from back in March, but this is the first time that I am seeing it. Does anyone know why this would have popped up all of the sudden and if I can somehow get it to go away?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 8:11 PM

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Rysz

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Oct 3, 2015 8:16 PM in response to tonymac1000

When you updated to Yosemite, Photos was installed and added to the Dock, but iPhoto is still in your Applications folder.

If all your files from iPhoto migrat d successfully to Photos, you can delete the iPhoto application and its iPhoto Library file.

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Oct 3, 2015 8:27 PM in response to Rysz

Rysz,

Thanks for coming back on this. I just so happened to find it when it was doing some more digging around. I was only looking my launchpad earlier. In the applications folder it was listed with a slash through it. I dragged it to the trash and reopened the App Store and the update was gone. Thanks for the help!

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