Q: iPhoto to Photos migration
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May 31, 2016 10:29 AMby Old Toad,Read this user tip: Moments in Photos are the New Events.
Also these additional user tips from Photos for Mac will help you in your transition from iPhoto to Photos:
Photos 1.5 vs iPhoto 9.6.1: Features and Capabilities
External Editors in Photos Are Here
Notes on Migrating an iPhoto Library from iPhoto to Photos for Mac
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by LarryHN,May 31, 2016 1:14 PM
LarryHN
May 31, 2016 1:14 PM
in response to tedfromearlysville
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(84,646 points)
Photos for MacYour events are converted to albums in Photos and stored in a folder named iPhoto events - there is no change in the organization and the event structure is not lost, just changed to albums
see How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support
What exactly are you seeing that you choose to describe as "a mess" - with no more information than that no one can help
LN
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Jun 1, 2016 4:37 AMby tedfromearlysville,Actually, both leonie and I are having the same experience. I have two folders labeled iPhoto Events in Photos. Both a patchwork when it comes to replicating my event structure in iPhoto. Worse, though, is that many of the events have no photos in them. So it's useless. Can't find anything in Photos that faithfully replicates the events in iPhoto, which are the result of many, many hours of editing.
BTW, thanks to all for the help. I'll keep at it, but I'd love to just focus on Photos, since there's lots to like about it, and since the handwriting is on the wall that Apple at some point will stop supporting iPhoto.
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Jun 1, 2016 4:46 AMby tedfromearlysville,To be specific in my case, when I look at the sidebar in photos, I actually have two folders with the same name -- iPhoto events. One has a subset of the events originally in iPhoto, but without any photos in any of these folders. The other has better coverage, but generally just a few photos per event. Neither replicates the event structure I had in iPhoto. At this point, I have a lot of newer photos directly in iPhoto, so just erasing everything and starting over has little appeal, but could be done with a lot of work. Ideally, I'd find a way for the folders in Photos "iPhoto Event" to suck in all of the photos from their respective folders in iPhoto. My guess is that this isn't doable.
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Jun 1, 2016 4:56 AMby léonie,Can't find anything in Photos that faithfully replicates the events in iPhoto, which are the result of many, many hours of editing.
Perhaps the iPhoto Library has a corruption, when you migrated it to Photos, that prevented the proper migration.
If iPhoto is still running on your Mac, you could try to repeat the migration to Photos, but this time repair and rebuild the iPhoto Library, before you migrate it again. Make a backup copy of the iPhoto Library before your rebuild it.
To rebuild your iPhoto Library
- If iPhoto is open, quit it.
- Hold down the Option and Command keys while you open iPhoto (click the iPhoto icon in the Dock).The Photo Library First Aid window opens.
- Click Rebuild database to rebuild your photo library.
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Jun 1, 2016 5:59 AMby tedfromearlysville,Thanks! I did rebuild the iPhotos library, so I'm in good shape there. But is there a command required to re-populate the "iPhoto Events" folders in Photos? That's what i think I need to be able to do. It doesn't seem to be happening automatically.
Huge thanks,
Ted
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Jun 1, 2016 11:25 AMby betterpromises,Just updated from iPhoto to Photos. When I select "iPhoto Events" from the sidebar, besides getting my iPhoto Events which I had named and saved, I also get other events that I did not create that are titled by a date.
How do I just get the actual events I had saved and named, without all the dated events which I didn't create?
