Iphoto upgrade - photostream events

I recently upgraded my iphoto to the new photos app. I noticed that photostream is no longer creating monthly events (as it did in iphoto) Is there a way to revert back to this option? I liked how my photostream would automatically create helpful monthly events and automatically import all photos to those events without me having to manually create albums.

You can duplicate the monthly My Photo Stream Event by creating a smart album in Photos
with the following criteria:
This is the closest we can get to the monthly events as now we only have Moments which are on a per day basis.

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    1. There is no right answer. There is no "should". There is the way that makes sense to you.
    2. You can keyword photos with Birthday party, but also Title them with Bob's 30th, that gives you two ways to search for them
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    Who
    What
    Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
    Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 50k library in a couple of seconds.
    So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a  typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
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    keyword is mountain
    keyword is snow
    rating is 5 stars
    Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
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    Keyword is John
    Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
    Want only the best pics?
    add Rating is greater than 4 stars
    The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John  to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
    In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me.

  • Photostream Events Deleting in iPhoto?

    Question on Photostream in iPhoto. I have iPhoto set to automatically import photo's to events and my events appear as separate days in the Events section of iPhoto. I also see one event per month for the Photostream photo's for that month...so November 2013 Photostream for the current month for example. The photo's in the photostream event don't appear in the event for the day the photo was taken....i.e. they are not duplicated in two events....the monthly photostream and day event. I have noticed today that the oldest monthly photostream is October 2012 Photostream. I have ~500 photo's in My Photostream. There must have been monthly photostream events earlier than October 2012 so my questions are -
    1. do the monthly photostream events delete from iPhoto after a set period of time even if you have not reached the 1000 photo limit, and
    2. if a monthly photostreram event is deleted, are all photo's in the photostream event deleted if they are not appearinmg as separate day events (the event being the date the photo's were taken on) and even though I have automatic import into events turned on?
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    Brian

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    Assuming that iPhoto > preferences > PhotoStream > automatic import is checked then yes, photos from PhotoStream are automatically imported into monthly events and are saved even when PhotoStream deletes the photos due to numbers/time restrictions.

  • IPhoto upgrade for IOS5 to get Photostream on your my MacBook.

    What's up with iPhoto upgrade for IOS5 to get Photostream on your my MacBook. The reviews are horror stories. Thoughts? Any fixes since these issues started? ~ Byrne51

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    One of the problems with upgrading is that you still have an older machine but if it's working well it could continue to do so for some years. However, newer software may not be able to be used on the older machine.
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    Easter 2014
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    Just now, I thought maybe the paste action in Finder while iPhoto was open might have triggered iPhoto to believe those photos were "moved" from the Photostream (since they had the same file name and were already there.)
    That's my only guess. Since the original event photos were referenced, and the photos that magically appeared are NOT referenced, I can only assume this is what happened. The photos did not become "unlinked" (If that's the right word) when I "undid" the paste of the photos, they are still present inside the library package.
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    yosemite....since iphoto upgrade, all photos are listed by date and not the albums..How can I get my albums back?

    ryanepps wrote:
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