Upgraded to Photos and all Albums in iPhotos Disappeared

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Upgraded to Photos and all Albums in iPhotos Disappeared

Now, Albums only list events. I had all pictures organized via albums, including several smart albums. How can I recover my albums? Please advise. Thank you.

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jan 30, 2016 8:22 PM

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Answer 1

LarryHN

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Jan 30, 2016 11:47 PM in response to SG LA

All albums should be migrated to Photos - smart albums may or may not be depending on their criteria - any smart albums that use criteria not available in Photos will not be migrated

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

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SG LA Author

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Jan 30, 2016 11:53 PM in response to LarryHN

Thank you. It was helpful to see how it is meant to work. Looking at this:

If a Smart Album from iPhoto or Aperture uses only conditions that Photos doesn't support, Photos won't display that album. For example, an Aperture Smart Album that contains only photos edited in an external editor won't appear in Photos.

I have only used iPhoto to edit picture or organize my albums. Confused why they still didn't transfer over. Is there some information on how to retrieve albums or view them if they are no longer shown? Doesn't seem like I am the only one who has encountered this issue.

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Answer 3

LarryHN

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Jan 31, 2016 12:22 AM in response to SG LA

Again all albums should - please describe the albums that did not

and smart albums will except if they use criteria not available in Photos - please describe the criteria for the ones that did not transfer

photos edited in an external editor is just one example of why they might not transfer - others include criteria based on the event a photo is in (photos has no events) - to get help you have to provide details not jsut abstrace problem saying that somehting did not work - and you need to tell us hat version of the OS and of Photos you have

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Old Toad

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Jan 31, 2016 10:21 AM in response to SG LA

Have you enabled the sidebar (Command+Option+S) and looked there?

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