How do i get iPhoto library upgraded to run

I installed iphoto library upgrader to my computer but iphoto still won't work.
How do I run it?

Applications folder ==> utilities -- double click on the upgrader - then after it runs launch iPHoto
LN

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To add to OT's advice:
You may need to delete your current iPhoto from the Applications folder, if it is a version of iPhoto '11, before the App Store will allow you to download it from the main page.
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HT5037 How can I get iPhoto to upgrade my library?

I purchased the Iphoto APP for my Mac Book Pro. It will not open and tell me to get the library upgrader. I downloaded it but still am no able open the IPhoto without receiving this message: To prepare the library, use the iPhoto Library Upgrader available from Apple. Help....I cannot open my pictures that were on the old IPhoto that came with my MacBook Pro.
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after you download the updater you must then launch it and let it run - after that completes you launch the new version of iPhoto
LN

HT5037 I've downloaded iPhoto Library upgrader and run the install but can't find the app to run it. Consequently, I cannot open iPhoto. I upgraded from 7 to the latest version to get my photo books feature back. Has Apple been bought out by Microsoft?

Please help... cannot access my photos...

More details would help more then snit remarks about Apple being bought out by Microsoft.
Such as if you have relocated iPhoto from /Applications.
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How do I get to iPhoto library upgrader?

Hi there.
Here what my system tells me when I want to open iPhoto:
"To open your library with this version of iPhoto, it first needs to be prepared."
"To prepare the library, use the iPhoto Library Upgrader available from Apple."
I run Yosemite on my Mac mini and I already have iPhoto in my application. This message appears after I switched from Maverick to Yosemite.
I went to Apple store and didn't find the "iPhoto Library Upgrader"
How can I get it?
Thanks

Download the iphoto library upgrader and RUN it - it will install in the utilities folder of you Applications of - go there and double click on it to RUN it and ten launch iPhoto 9.6 to complete the upgrade
LN

I just upgraded from IPhoto7 to 9.5. Now I can't open iPhoto without a downloaded tool to bridge the gap bewteen versions. I downloaded the tool and I still get the message "To prepare the library, use the iPhoto Library Upgrader available from Apple."

I had to upgrade to Mavericks to send off the iCanendars I made in iPhoto. Then I had to upgrade my IPhoto from 7 to 9.5. Now when I go to open iPhoto I get the message "To prepare the library, use the iPhoto Library Upgrader available from Apple." Well, I installed the Upgrader, but I still get the message and can't open iPhoto. I have tried restarting the computer, but that didn't help. How do I get the computer to recognize the Upgrader?

You may get more replies in the iPhoto forum.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iphoto

Can some please provide instructions on how to import an iPhoto library from an old Mac to a new Mac without getting a bunch of duplicates? I tried transferring my pictures using an external hard drive and then copying it to the Pictures folder on my Mac

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Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
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I have just downloaded the iPhoto Library Upgrader how do I use it to upgrade my Photo Library?

Just open the app and follow the steps. It should look for your library and upgrade it. Make a backup of the iPhoto library before using the application

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I just upgraded to Mountain Lion which was fine. However, afterwards I upgraded to the latest iphoto version and now it says that I need the iPhoto Library upgraded. So I downloaded that application. However, I have no idea how to make the "upgrader" do whatever it needs to do to the iphoto application? Any ideas? I tried dragging the iPhoto Library Upgrader application onto iPhoto but that did not work.

Hello, I have the same problem...but when I go to Applications/Utilities/iPhoto Library Upgrader - then double click on it, it gives me this message.
When I try to open my iPhoto it still gives me this message:
I really don't know what to do. I tried everything possible.
Maybe someone has experienced it also?
Thank you in advance for any suggestions!

I just updated my iPhoto and now am asked to download the iPhoto Library Upgrader. I am asked for a password. I do not know it. How can I find it or reset it?

Name: O

I just updated my iPhoto and now am asked to download the iPhoto Library Upgrader. I am asked for a password. I do not know it. How can I find it or reset it?
Are you asked for the password, when you run the installer for iPhoto Library upgrader?
Then the installer is asking you for the password of your administrator account. You need to authorize the installation.

HT5037 installed the iPhoto library upgraded and still getting same error.

i've downloaded and installed the iPhoto library upgrader, clicking on iPhoto app and still getting the same pop up message, "install iPhoto upgrader"

You need to go to the Applications/Utilities folder, double clic, on the iPhoto library upgrader to launch and run it on your library. Then launch your iPhoto application to open the library.
OT

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I read all of the forum posts. Iphoto library upgrader is NOT in the utilities folder of my applications folder. I am not a dummy. I looked. It is not there. I also ran a search of my entire drive and it is not there. I have, ostensibly, downloaded the new iphoto after being not told that would be necessary after upgrading the OS. If it is not already in the folder (the library upgrader) where is allegedly is supposed to be, does that mean iphoto did not properly install. I have the icon. When I double click it pulls the app up, directing me I need to upgrade my library and then gives me the spinning wheel and closes the program all together. This is BS. Thanks for any assistance.

TD: Thank you for your reply. Given the number of posts you both have, and the fact that this is on the apple site, and as this as more or less the only support apple has, I assumed this was subsidized, etc., by apple. If you are all just people sitting at home, thank you. I will say though, that the comments on the app store are fairly valid. Apple dumps a bunch of "stuff" out there (as you don't like language only unsitable for anyone under 18) requires an upgrade, and then waits for the users to sort it out and fix their problems. "Enabling" comes to mind, given how many post you and some of your well intended friends have debugging problems apple should fix for itself.
So again, thank you very much for your time and assistance. I, however, do not have time to waste on this BS (not you, this product)   Could I spend 5 hours doing it and fix it. Probably. But my time is more important so I will take my machine to my IT guy and let him figure it out.
You might consider, having drunk as deeply from the Kool-aide apple is serving up, that Apple given its market cap could easily handle and resolve all of this itself. You are, for ulturistic and likely technologically religous reasons, are doing something that would be unheard of in any other context and in so doing perpetuating Apple's arrogance in releasing such a messed up product.    It would be like my dad, who loves fords, voluteering all of his free time to fix defects in new fords trucks instead of ford properly fixing its own problems. If ford new current owners would fix all of the problems with new trucks, they would just send them all out defective knowing they will be fixed for free. I could go on, but I suspect you get my point.
So again, on a personal level: thank you, thank you, thank you. Truly thank you .   But I do respectfully suggest 'you,' not you personally but this whole process of apple offshoring its repsonsibility to user driven chat, is an enormous part of the problem.

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I am going around in circles trying to get iPhoto 9.4.3 to launch. When I try to launch it I get the following message;
To open your library with this version of iPhoto, it first needs to be prepared.
To prepare the library, use the iPhoto Library Upgrader available from Apple.
Clicking on the Learn More button takes me to this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5037
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Hi Larry,
As I said; I already tried the option/command procedure [holding down both keys simultaneously] and I get the same notice;
To open your library with this version of iPhoto, it first needs to be prepared.
To prepare the library, use the iPhoto Library Upgrader available from Apple.
Thanks for your suggestions but it appears you haven't read my original post where I state that I have already downloaded and tried the iPhoto Library Manager and iphoto just hangs so that I need to force quit the application.
Is there anything else that can be tried?
Thx

I accidentally ran iPhoto Library Upgrader on my Picture folder and now I have to right click on it to "show contents" instead of looking at it in Finder. Help!

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Hi! Thanks for responding!
I have iPhoto 9.5.1, I am on OS X Version 10.9.5 on a MacBook Pro with 2.66 GHz
My current "iPhoto Library" file is OK (I can open it with iPhoto), however I cannot access the old one from iPhoto 6 titled Library.iPhoto
I tried right clicking and choosing the application, it did not work.
"exactly how did you "I got to my files and backed them up"" - I showed the contents of my Pictures folder, and it opened up the folders in Finder and I copied them to an external hard drive. In my Picture folder I have several folders of Photos plus the iPhoto Library files (old & current)
I do have old back ups, but they are from April, and I recently imported 5 months of photos from my iPhone, so the iPhoto Library I copied after showing contents is the one I need.

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