Q: iPhoto update is unavailable
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Sep 7, 2016 9:47 AMby léonie,The current iPhoto version is 9.6.1, so you may want to update. But you cannot update from the Updates pane of the AppStore any longer, because iPhoto is no longer sold.
If iPhoto is showing in your Purchases history at the AppStore, the fourth tab of the AppSTore, you can update by moving iPhoto to the Trash (don't empty the Trash, so you can put it back if the update fails), and reopen the AppStore. The button to the right of iPhoto should now have changed to "Install". Click it. Reinastalling will install the updated version 9.6.1.
if you already have 9.6.1 installed, you are getting the alerts probably, because you have an older version on a connected backup drive.
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Sep 7, 2016 10:32 AMby carolfrompalo alto,Tried that, Leonie. Same problem. The message back from Apple is unavailable (null) I did not purchase iPhoto. It came with the OS installed on the MacBook I purchase in April of this year. I just want to avoid the recurrent blue flags telling me to update, but Apple should fix this, for all the people who use this program.
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Sep 7, 2016 10:52 AMby léonie,I did not purchase iPhoto. It came with the OS installed on the MacBook I purchase in April of this year.
April this year no new Mac was sold with iPhoto any longer. All new Macs came with Photos for Mac, OS X Yosemite or El Capitan, and no iPhoto.
If you purchased a Mac with iPhoto, it must have been an older version with Mavericks instead of the newer systems. But still, if you have iPhoto 9.6, it is an AppStore version and should be showing on your Purchases tab at the AppStore. iPhoto 9.6 has not been available outside the App Store.
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Sep 7, 2016 11:05 AMby léonie,If you do not use iPhoto, uninstall it - delete it from the Applications folder. Then the update alerts should stop.
It is really weird, that a new computer with El Capitan should have come with iPhoto installed, since Apple stopped selling iPhoto on February 5, 2015.
