iPhoto events album will not import to Photos

I have read all the discussions about moving the iPhoto events album into Photos easily on a mac, however my iPhoto events albums are only stored on my phone and I can't find a way to import them to Photos at all or delete any of them from my phone. Please advise!

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on May 5, 2017 5:59 PM

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May 5, 2017 6:31 PM in response to brooklynmk

When you say you got an SSD, are you saying you moved your iPhoto Library to an SSD, and then deleted it from your computer?


If you go to Finder, under Pictures, you should see both an iPhoto Library and a Photos Library:


User uploaded file

Do you see both of those in your finder? If not, I'll have to put a bat call out for our photos experts to lend a hand here. Could be complicated.


Cheers,


GB

May 6, 2017 8:04 AM in response to brooklynmk

however my iPhoto events albums are only stored on my phone and I can't find a way to import them to Photos at all or delete any of them from my phone.

Just a hunch, but have the iPhoto Events albums been synced to your iPhone from your Mac using iTunes? Albums you synced with iTunes can only be deleted from an iPhone by syncing again with iTunes. Antod you cannot reimport the iTunes synced photos back to a Mac.

May 9, 2017 12:24 AM in response to brooklynmk

If the photos have been synced to the iPhone using iTunes, they are not in the camera roll. That is why your Mac is not seeing them in the import panel, when you connect the iPhone to the USB port.

you can test this, by trying to edit one of the photos. Does the iPhone offer to create a copy in the camera roll, when you try to edit? These copies can be downloaded.




or send thsee photos by mail to your Mac.

you you use an app like phot sync, but I have not tested any of them. Perhaps Gail from maine knows apps that sync these photos.

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