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how to transfer iphoto albums to photos mac to mac

I transferred my files from a 2006 imac to a 2011 imac using migration assistant but none of my albums were transferred as albums. The photos were transferred but only in one large file which I now have to search and remake all of the albums. Also none of my firefox bookmarks were transferred. Anyone know what went wrong? The old imac has OS 10.6.8 and the newer one has Yosemite.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 7, 2016 9:39 AM

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Jan 7, 2016 10:20 AM in response to everguard8888

What version of iPhoto do you have on each iMac?


Were the photos in an iPhoto library on the 2006 iMac? If so Migration Assistant has been known to not play well with iPhoto libraries. Connect the the two iMacs together and copy the iPhoto library from the old iMac to the Pictures folder of the 2011 iMac. If you have a library on the 2011 iMac that you want to keep rename it before copying the library from the old iMac.


Once you have the library on the newer iMac open it with iPhoto so it will be converted to the newer version (if iPhoto on it is a newer version).


If you need to merge the two libraries into one and preserve all of the albums, metadata (keywords, titles, faces, locations, etc.) you'll need to use the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager to do the merging.

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Jan 7, 2016 11:39 AM in response to everguard8888

The link OT gave you will download a disk image with an installer. Open this disk image, then run the installer. It will install the iPhoto Library Upgrader in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. Run the upgrader from Applications > Utilities on your iPhoto Library.

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Jan 7, 2016 12:32 PM in response to léonie

I went to the utilities folder and opened the upgrader. folowed the instructions on upgrading the iphoto library and the it asked me to start iphoto. Now my iphoto will not start because it requires a later version of iphoto. What do I do now!!? I went to iphoto downloads and there are about 20 upgrades from iphoto 6.0.6. Do I keep downloading each upgrade until the last version of 9.4.3?

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Jan 7, 2016 1:44 PM in response to everguard8888

Which version of iPhoto is on the new Mac?


You cannot update iPhoto 6.0.6 to a version that will run on Yosemite. With Yosemite you need iPhoto 9.6.1, That is a purchased upgrade of iPhoto and not a free update. Is an iPhoto 9.x.x. version installed on your new Mac? Apple stopped selling iPhoto, and it is to late to purchase the AppStore version of iPhoto 9.6.1, if you not already own an earlier AppStore version of iPhoto, at least iPhoto 9.5.1..


Yosemite 10.10.3 or later comes with the new Photos.app instead of iPhoto. You can open the iPhoto Library in Photos for Mac, after you prepared it with the library upgrader.

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Jan 7, 2016 1:51 PM in response to léonie

Now I am really confused! Do I do the iphoto library update on the old imac or the new one? After I did the ethernet transfer of all my files including iphoto the app in the applications folder has an X through it so it cannot be opened so I don't have an iphoto appl on the new imac that I can open. Now I have my iphoto library upgraded on the old imac but I can't open it so now what do I do?

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Jan 7, 2016 3:12 PM in response to everguard8888

Now I have my iphoto library upgraded on the old imac but I can't open it so now what do I do?

The updater should have been run on the new Mac, to prepare the library for a new iPhoto version.


Do you have a copy of your iPhoto library on the new MAc, that has not been upgraded by the iPhoto Library upgrader? Then copy that back to your old Mac, so you have a copy on your old Mac, that you can open in iPhoto 6.


And copy the version of the librrary, that you prepared with the iPhoto Library Upgrader to your new mac.


On your new Mac with Yosemite you can open the iPhoto library in Photos for Mac, That is the successor to iPhoto for Yosemite and the newer MacOS X versions. But the library has to beprepared with the iPoto ibrary Upgrader that you ran on the old Mac. So transfer that version of the library to te new Mac.

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Jan 7, 2016 4:59 PM in response to léonie

The iphoto library is on the new mac and not updated by library updater but is not in the original albums. The photos are now in a big file and can be sorted by date but not by album.


p.s. thanks for your patience. My problems started when I updated my ipad to ios 9.1 but couldn't complete the download because my old computer could not update itunes and then apple only gave us 24 hours before it was impossible to go back to ios 8. I wound up with an ipad that I could n't update my photos and then had to buy another computer so I could update itunes. Very frustrated with Apple.

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Jan 8, 2016 4:31 AM in response to everguard8888

The photos are now in a big file and can be sorted by date but not by album.

Im sorry, I don't understand how you are trying to view the photos. The "big file" - do you mean the iPhoto Library your re seeing in the Finder? And are you trying to browse the iPhoto Library in the Finder, or have you opened the library in iPhoto or in the Photos for Mac application?

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