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Q: iPhoto has crippled my MAC. I was working in Lightroom; iPhoto was open somehow I did something and now I have a disc full of Pics I need to know how to undo my MAC is crippled.

MacBook Pro 13" late 2011, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB memory, 1333MHz DDR3

OSX El Capitan v10.11.4

 

I have two possibly related iPhoto issues.

 

  1. Pictures are presenting garbled when viewed out of Lightroom, they are highly pixelated. Same pictures open fine in Lightroom on the same MAC.
  2. iPhoto seems to have uploaded pics I was working on and a previously nearly empty drive is not so full my MAC is crippled. My Pictures was cleaned out months ago to correct this problem now it is full of pictures. How can I undo this to be sure what I want is kept but what I did not want is ommitted?

 

Thank you,

 

Michelle

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Apr 25, 2016 2:16 PM

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  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Apr 28, 2016 7:41 PM in response to Snowy04
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    Apr 28, 2016 7:41 PM in response to Snowy04

    Michelle,

    Please take it one step at a time.

     

    Regardless of what Photos did or not do, your Lightloom (and iPhotos) library should have remained unchanged and should have remained fully accessible from within Lightroom.

     

    iPhoto has been replaced by a new application named Photos. When you first launch Photos, it prompts you to migrate your iPhoto Libray to a Photos Library, but your iPhotos remains unaffected on your drive.

     

    The migration process from iPhoto to Photos Library is very slow. It is not unusual to take many dats, or even weeks for a large library, especially if you have enabled iCloud Photo Library.

     

    Now, very comely and precisely, please tell us what actual problems you are experiencing.