Bandit232
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Q: I can't work with Photos

I can't stand Photos! I wish I had never migrated my photo collection from iPhoto to Photos. Now I can't find anything. What a mess!

 

I'm not a professional photographer and don't log everything I shoot by date. I have many family photos that I had scanned and there's no logic to where they have been put now. I had the perfect system with iPhoto. I had all 8000 of my photos sorted into events. Now, after messing with Photos, my pictures are spread out all over the place and I have multiple duplicates of everything. I'm so frustrated!

 

Is there another iPhoto-like application I can put all of my photos into, kill all of the dupes and easily re-sort my collection?

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

Bill

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Jul 17, 2016 10:06 AM

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Q: I can't work with Photos

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 17, 2016 10:26 AM in response to Bandit232
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    Jul 17, 2016 10:26 AM in response to Bandit232

    I had the perfect system with iPhoto. I had all 8000 of my photos sorted into events. Now, after messing with Photos, my pictures are spread out all over the place and I have multiple duplicates of everything. I'm so frustrated!

    Your events should have been preserved as albums. Are they really missing? 

    Look in the sidebar of Photos. (you can reveal the sidebar by entering the key combination ⌥⌘S .  In the Albums section of the sidebar should be a folder "IPhoto Events".  There should be an album for each of your events.

     

    And the migration to Photos should not have created duplicates. There is something terribly wrong with your library.

     

    How did you migrate your iPhoto Library to Photos? If you dragged the iPhoto Library onto the Photos icon in the dock, you should now have a well organized library without additional duplicates, as described here at this link:

     

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

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Jul 17, 2016 11:14 AM in response to Bandit232
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    Photos for Mac
    Jul 17, 2016 11:14 AM in response to Bandit232
    I had all 8000 of my photos sorted into events

    This user tip will help you understand how the new Photos handles the old Events: Moments in Photos are the New Events.

     

    Here are additional user tips from Photos for Mac  User Tips that 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

    Photo Editing Extensions for Photos for Mac


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  • by Bandit232,

    Bandit232 Bandit232 Jul 17, 2016 12:18 PM in response to léonie
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    Jul 17, 2016 12:18 PM in response to léonie

    Thanks for the reply. Yes, I dragged and dropped my iPhoto library on to the Photos icon in my menu bar. I do have Albums in the side bar. Many of them with the same event name as was in iPhoto, but they are either empty or have just a few photos in them. Example: my iPhoto family event had over 900 photos in it. Now there are 291. My dog event had over 500, now it has 101 items. The album that had over 200 photos of my home is now empty.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 17, 2016 1:24 PM in response to Bandit232
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    Jul 17, 2016 1:24 PM in response to Bandit232

    Your iPhoto Library may have had a corruption, that prevented a successful migration to Photos. If you still have iPhoto installed (you need iPhoto 9.6.1) you could try to repair and rebuild the iPhoto Library in iPhoto and try to migrate it again.  Also checkin iPhoto, if all photos, that are now missing from the event albums, can be edited and exported in iPhoto. You may have a problem with missing original photos.

  • by Bandit232,

    Bandit232 Bandit232 Jul 17, 2016 1:29 PM in response to léonie
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    Jul 17, 2016 1:29 PM in response to léonie

    Thank you. I just realized I have 3000 photos missing and two Photos icons on my desktop. I need to start over by getting ALL photos from both applications into one location, delete the duplicates and migrate everything back to iPhoto. Wish I had never heard of Photos! I appreciate your time.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Jul 17, 2016 2:42 PM in response to Bandit232
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    Jul 17, 2016 2:42 PM in response to Bandit232

    Ok - But nothing you have commented on has any even remote possibility of being  a result of migrating to Photos

     

    It is not possible to have two Photos libraries except due to user actions

     

    Done correctly as many, many millions of people have done there is not disruption of any sort in migrating from iPhoto to Photos

     

    And since you have posted a Photos for Mac question in the iPhoto for Mac forum I will request that your post be moved to the correct forum

     

    LN