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Q: After upgrading to photos all my folders I had created in iPhoto never came across just all my photos is there away to get it to how it was set up with album names etc?After

After upgrading to photos all my folders I had created in iPhoto never came across just all my photos is there away to get it to how it was set up with album names etc?

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009)

Posted on Feb 3, 2016 12:05 AM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Feb 3, 2016 12:15 AM in response to blazzer82
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    Feb 3, 2016 12:15 AM in response to blazzer82

    Have a look in the "Albums" section - there should be a folder "iPhoto Events". This folder should be showing albums for all events you created.

    Reveal the sidebar in Photos by entering the key combination option-command-S  ( ⌥⌘S).   Somewhere below the Albums" title in the sidebar should be the the folder iPhoto Events.  You should also see your standard albums there, but your smart albums might be missing, if they are based on constraints, that cannot be recreated in Photos.

     

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

     

    Did Photos crash during the migration of your iPhoto Library?

  • by Old Toad,Apple recommended

    Old Toad Old Toad Feb 3, 2016 9:48 AM in response to blazzer82
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    Feb 3, 2016 9:48 AM in response to blazzer82

    Enable the sidebar in Photos (Command+Option+S key combination) and look for the albums there under the Albums title.

    Photos001.jpg

    Moments in Photos are the new Events, i.e. groupings of photos sorted by date taken.

     

    When the iPhoto Library was first migrated to Photos there is a folder created in the sidebar titled iPhoto Events and all migrated iPhoto Events (which are now Moments) are represented by an album in that folder.

    PsimulatedEvents.jpg


    To open the sidebar if it's not already open use the Option+Command+S key combination.

     

    NOTE: It's been reported by several users that if the Event albums are moved out of the iPhoto Library folder in the sidebar they may disappear.  It's not widespread but several users have reported that issue.  Therefore, if you want to assure that you keep those Event albums don't move them outside the iPhoto Events folder.

     

    There's a way to simulate events in Photos.

    When new photos are imported into the Photos library go to the Last Import smart album, select all the photos and use the File New Album menu option or use the key combination Command+N.  Name it as desired.  It will appear just above the iPhoto Events folder where you can drag it into the iPhoto Events folder

     

    When you click on the iPhoto Events folder you'll get a simulated iPhoto Events window.

    Albums and smart albums can be sorted by Title, by Date with oldest first and by Date with newest first.

     

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  • by mike70122,

    mike70122 mike70122 Feb 7, 2016 8:32 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Feb 7, 2016 8:32 AM in response to Old Toad

    Well, not all of them (i.e. not all "events" in iPhoto got imported as "albums" in Photos). I had 98 separate events in iPhoto. In Photos, it looks like 70 or so of them have shown up, depending on how you count. The reason I say "depending" is because some of the Photos albums are of iPhoto events that I merged or even deleted a long time ago.

    Any idea how to just do it once and be done with it? I don't like the Photos method of sorting at all, and I understand that's a common complaint, but I could get used to it (I think) if I could just start from the same base. I really depended on "events" under iPhotos to find what I am looking for, but Photos just doesn't seem to have the equivalent.

    Thanks for any advice

    Mike