Q: iPhoto to Photos problems
Dear Apple community,
I have seen huge numbers of questions, comments and criticisms of Apples movement from iPhoto to Photos. And I am having a very hard time getting to the bottom of all the issues and processes, and which ones are applicable to me and my situation. With that said, I wanted to start a fresh discussion just for my situation and ask you all all a few questions.
1) Do I actually need to migrate from iPhoto to photos? I'm not really a heavy user, and am much more concerned with organization rather than editing.
2) Addressing the question above, is there a much better program out there for photograph organization other that what is embedded in Apple products? I' m MORE that happy to switch out of Apple's product at this point. Please take note apple - and that there is nowhere I have seen any form of client/user satisfaction survey in this new product or service Photos.
3) Now that I have migrated from iPhoto to Photos, it seems as if I have duplicate photos and ' library' files. And what exaclty is a library and why is an iPhoto library not fully compatible with a Photos library? Or are they . . . . I don't see where all my albums are recreated, or faces redone.
4) Any thoughts on how to take my iPhotos library, Photos, and all the back ups I have made and sort them all and eradicate dupilcates? I have tried to back up my photos, so now have iPhoto, Photos, and external drive Libraries. Is there a place I can dump them all, sort out and then back up a proper non-duplicated library?
Sorry if all sounds long winded, but these programs do no not seem to work well together and I have some very valuable memories here I do not want to neglect.
Any help at all would be great and thanks for reading my post.
All the best to you.
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.1), HP printer software
Posted on Apr 1, 2016 10:49 PM