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)
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:
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
I actually only see "Photos" after I go into my Picture section in Finder. All those seem to be the ones I already have on Photos, but not accounting for the iPhoto ones. I am clearly missing something. I really appreciate your continued help!
Only photos, Albums, or Events from iPhoto on your Mac can be automatically transferred to Photos. This should happen automatically. How would your iPhoto events be only on your phone and not in your iPhoto Library?
Cheers,
GB
When I updated and also got an SSD, iPhoto disappeared and now I only have Photos, which started from scratch. I am really not sure how I got myself into this situation, but they are only currently stored on my phone. Unless they should be within my computer elsewhere. My old hard drive has broken and I have had no luck.
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.
Yes, that's how I have always imported them. So there is no possibility to move them to my Mac now? I dislike that I can't remove them from my phone either. I understand the logic behind it, but it's rather inconvenient now that this situation has happened.
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.
I don't know of any apps that might do this. léonie, you are the expert, and thanks for jumping in 🙂. The only other way I can think of to get the photos to the Mac would be via iCloud Photo Sharing, and then selecting all and creating a new Album in Photos to put them in.
Do you think that would work?
GB
Photo Sharing will work, but the shared photos may be reduced in size, because shared photos cannot be larger than 2048 pixels at the longest edge, unless they are panoramic. But iTunes will already have reduced the size of the photos too, so that will probably not matter.
Thanks for the info léonie! Good to know about the reduction in size 🙂
GB
iPhoto events album will not import to Photos
