iPhoto Update on El Capitan.

Move any copy of iPhoto you are still having installed to a backup drive. Delete the installed iPhoto from the Applications folder. Restart the mac. You will see the update alert as long as Spotlight is showing iPhoto as installed on your Mac.

You're welcome 🙂

After updating to El Capitan and losing old IPhotos and getting the new Photos app as the new default, I cannot connect to Facebook when trying to upload photographs from "Photos" app to FB. It does not seem to sync and requests my FB password. I enter the password and it gives another message, not able to complete. Any possible answers to this one. I preferred the old version of IPhotos. New version does not have as many usable features. Seems like a downgrade and not an upgrade. I love my Mac but not this update.

Thanks so much, léonie. I was confused at why the update kept appearing and you solved the problem immediately.

You are a star!

The forum of the new app is here

Photos for Mac

The new app has more poweerful editing tools than iPhoto, plus the entire iCloud Library feature, so hardly a downgrade...

In the System/Accounts preference pane delete the Facebook account, reboot and reenter the account.

In Photos go to the Share menu and make sure Facebook is selected. Then try uploading again.

Edit: where did you guy come from? Oh how I hate this Jive. 👿

The connection to Facebook when uploading from Photos appears to have fixed itself! I have also spent some time learning the new version of photos and I have found most of the features I was missing when I first downloaded the update of my OS. I also used some of the suggestions in the forum here to stop getting updates for the older version of IPhotos.

Onward and upward!

Thanks for this tip. was trying to get around the exact same thing.

Oh this was so annoying. Thank you léonie.

Having deleted the original iPhoto from my applications folder, after transferring to a backup drive and restarting, I still see the iPhoto app on my dock, but with a white warning circle, and when I click on it, I'm told that it is unavailable because it is in the trash. Should I empty the trash? The going to the app store,i still get the "unavailable" message.

Bruce-

When I installed El Capitan, the iPhoto app in the dock was replaced by the Photos app. However, I had to manually move the old iPhoto app from the Applications folder to the trash.

You can drag the iPhoto app out of the dock. If the Photos app is not there, you can drag it from the Applications folder into the dock.

Fred

The deal is this. iPhoto should be replaced by Photos. With Photos Apple can cash-in due to the connections with the Apple eco-system. When running Yosemite all my Apple products worked fine together. Pictures taken on my iPhone or iPad turned up as supposed on all my units after enabling iCloud sharing. Everything was just fine. iPhoto was still working on my Macbook. Offline. With no connection at all to any cloud. Just as I want. All my old images from back to 2003 could be shown in iPhoto. A "huge" library of several 100 Gigs. After upgrading to El Capitan, iPhoto is gone, turning on iCloud sharing of Pictures results in a search for all my images previously residing in my now unavailable iPhoto library. Of course, my free quota is not enough on iCloud but Apple is kind enough to let me buy additional storage. This is of course not coincidence, Apple knows that people have a lot of photos in their iPhoto libraries and by making the "iPhoto business" hard a lot of people do it the easy way - buying more storage from Apple. Instead of letting the default behavior be as in previous version. Just according to the Apple-plan. Probably there are solutions to fix this, it can always be fixed but it shouldn't have to. However, my feeling is that there is always a "catch" with Apples free updates. They force people into Apples preferred tracks by making old habits annoying and hard to use. Where can I find the information when upgrading to El Capitan: "Please enjoy this free upgrade and to access your old images just slip your MasterCard". The discussion in this thread should be non-existing if Apple weren't so arrogant to people spending a lot of money on their products.

The deal isn’t that.

1. iCloud integration is not required in any shape or form to use Photos. It can be used Offline, just like you did with iPhoto. Yes you can purchase more space to use the iCloud facility, but that's an option, not mandatory in any way. And it is the default. You have to choose to use the iCloud Library.

2. iPhoto is not gone after upgrading to El Capitan. In fact, if you had an up-to-date version of iPhoto it's not even necessary to upgrade the app. It works just like it always did. If you didn't keep your version up-to-date that's down to you.

3. You're not forced anywhere. You can use Photos offline. You can continue to use iPhoto. You can use some other app for the task of managing your photos - Picasa, Lightroom etc etc. You have choices everywhere at every step of the way. Nothing forced. Lots and lots of consumer choice. You're not even forced to use Apple software if you don't want to - nor hardware either.

So, really, the problem isn't with Apple it's with you making rather a lot of inaccurate assumptions.

I want to continue to use iPhoto, but the update from Mountain Lion to El Capitan has made the app (iPhoto 9.4.3) unusable. I need update 9.6.1 but I do not find.

Can You help me?