Q: How revert from Photos to iPhoto
I bought my wife a shiny new iMac to replace the old Mac she was using. I imported her Snow Leopard iPhoto library into Photos on El Capitan. The import screwed up dates and mangled the thumbnails. Following the standard advice, I ran repair (control/option open of Photos) to no avail. No change. So I laboriously fixed 12,000 thumbnails with rotate/unrotate, again following advice. Then I stupidly ran repair again and Photos scrambled the thumbnails again. I need to get back to iPhoto before my wife kills me, but I don't know how to get there from here. The iPhoto from Snow Leopard does not work. I bought iLife 11 but that version of iPhoto doesn't work either and the app store won't update it. What do I do now?
Carl
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
Posted on Jul 5, 2016 5:24 PM