Migrate iPhoto

How do i migrate iPhoto library and albums from my previous MacBook Pro to a new one?

To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network,Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
But however you do choose to link the two machines...
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.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.

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HT201386 iPhone 5 64G did not ask me to migrate iPhotos?

The article about how to migrate iPhoto to Photos on iOS8 mentions two things:
It will ask you to migrate every time you open iPhoto until you migrate"Tap Migrate to start the migration process. If you choose Cancel, the dialog is dismissed, but will again appear the next time you tap the iPhoto icon."
It assumes that iPhoto and Photos co-exist."Important: Do not delete iPhoto from your device until after you've successfully migrated your data or it won't be possible to migrate your data."
Here's the problem in two parts:
I was never asked to migrate after upgrade to 8, or the other two upgrades finally ending in 8.1
There is no longer an iPhoto app on my iPhone to migrate
iPhone information:
iPhone 5 64GB White & Silver (GSM) Unlocked (MD643C/A)
iOS: 8.1 (12B411)
Apple A6, dual core, 1300 MHz
MacBook Pro
OS: Yosemite 10.10
Photo all: iPhoto (not Photos as on my iPhone
iPhoto on my iPhone was entirely replaced by Photos - same icon, some location in my apps organization. It doesn't appear that Photos was added as a separate app. When I look at the apps on my iPhone in the App Store or anywhere under Settings, it doesn't show that iPhoto still exists in the list, as if it had been deleted like other apps. This leads me to believe the Photos entirely replaced iPhoto without asking me to migrate.
Also, all iPhone photos I've taken since upgrading to 8.1 only appear on my MacBook Pro through the Photo Stream. I do not get prompted to add the newer photos at all, even as duplicates, no new events are created. It's still called iPhotos on my Mac, running Yosemite 10.10.
Some apps, like Facebook, also don't recognize these newer photos. The Google+ app does. I know those apps are independent of Apple, but obviously they look at the photos on my iPhone differently.

Actually, your bank may be able to help. The information that you enter into iTunes account regarding your credit card have to match the bank exactly. To be honest, it isn't iTunes that is refusing, it is your bank that is refusing it. So, I would believe you are not entering something correctly. Make sure your name, your address, everything matches exactly to what you are entering into iTunes account. Street does not match St, etc. If your card has your middle initial and you do not enter it, it will not work. The bank that issued the card should be able to tell why it is being refused.

Migration, iPhoto and Aperture

I recently migrated my library from an emac running iPhoto 05 and using iPhoto Buddy to manage my libraries, to iPhoto 08. Wow, bit of a struggle but got there in the end. I only had 2 libraries running, work and home, which was a blessing. Now when I try to launch Aperture the message reads that my library is earlier than iPhoto 06, which clearly it isn't! More trouble. It has been suggested to me that I should remove my now complete one big library and reinstall it so Aperture recognises it. It sound like a good idea but how do I do it and is there an easier way for a non techi?
Thanks,
Tim

Hi TD,
I'm getting there. What iPhotoBuddy did before was help to create multiple libraries (I made a home library which was called iPhoto library and a 'Work' one) and then it put up an interface to choose between the two. It was simple but effective. I didn't realise you could simply hold down the Alt key when you launched iPhoto and that would allow you to do the same (choose between libraries).
I am using iPhoto 7.1.3, by the way and yes, I have recently migrated from an older emac running iPhoto 5. When I migrated, iPhoto opened up in 'Work' library, obviously the last one I was using before I migrated. And I got in a stew because I couldn't find my other library. Eventually I found the other library and merged the two but in the process lost my names and albums from the iPhoto original library. You've just shown me how to toggle between the two, thank you.
And, better still, they now both appear in Aperture which was the original problem.
So to recap, both libraries now appear in Aperture, thank you for that. I now know how to toggle between the two, thank you for that. I now have my two libraries back operational and can move from one to the other by a key stroke on launching. I may well consider iPhoto manager if you recommend it. Sounds a bit like iBuddy. My only problem now is that I have all my work and home photos merged in my 'Work' library and I spent hours renaming all the photos, and of course there is a lot of duplication in the iPhoto library and the Work library. I could go through and simply delete the family photos from the work library (after I spent hours renaming them). I'd be interested now you've helped me resolve my problems, with great patience I should add, what should I do, carry on using the amalgamated Work folder, delete the family photos from the work folder and press alt to move between libraries on start iPhoto start up, or download Photo Manager?
Many thanks,Tim

Migrated iPhoto content to new MacBook Pro, but can't get '11

Hi there,
I migrated my iPhoto content from my old laptop to my new one, the new one has OSX 10.6.7, but somehow I seem to have migrated iPhoto v8.1.2 also. iPhoto '11 should be part of 10.6.7, right? iPhoto '11 cannot be found on my new computer, did one cancel the other?
My hubby did exactly the same thing, migrated his old iPhoto content to his new MacBook Pro and he has iPhoto '11. I have tried to download it but it seems that it's too big to download, it requires a physical disc. My computer came with the software already loaded.
If anyone can give me any pointers on how to fix this I'd be so grateful.
Thanks,

How did you migrate the iPhoto content?
As to iPhoto version - iPhoto does not come with any OS - it comes on new computers and can be purchased as part of iLife or in the App store
reinstall iPhoto - go to your receipts folder ("Your hard drive" ==> library ==> receipts) and remove any iPhoto receipts and reinstall from the restore disks that came with your computer - do a custom install of bundled software only
For more information click here for the MacWorld article on reinstalling OS X applications.
LN

How to Migrate iPhoto Library?

How do I migrate iPhoto library from MacBook Pro to iMac and keep Events and Faces?

Copy the iPhoto Library package/file from your MBP to the iMac. Connect the two Macs and drag from MBP to the iMac and place in the Pictures folder. Or if you have an external HD use it to transfer the library between Macs. DO NOT try to import the MBP library into a library on the iMac.
OT

HT201386 Trying to migrate iPhoto broke Photos. Has anyone else had this problem?

Trying to migrate iPhoto did not work and also broke Photos. Has anyone else had this problem?

I finally fixed the problem using a slightly different process.
I turned off in settings my photostream, icloud photo sharing and summarize.
I turned the iPhone off and then back on
I opened Photos App and killed it with the multitasker
Then I went back in settings and turned back on my photostream, icloud photo sharing and summarize.
When I reopened the Photos app I have noticed that was not crashing instantly and few seconds later the iPhoto migration signal (finally) came back.
I just waited the transfer to finish and the photos app is now working.
I recommend trying this method to anyone stuck in the same bug.

Duplicate user account OR migrate iPhoto/iWeb between users

I've seen this question asked several times before, but have not seen an answer!
So, with as many details as I can muster:
I have, on my computer, 4 user accounts: my admin account, my user account, my boyfriend's user account, and our business account... All separate, keeps things nice and tidy (sort of!).
I have a new and separate project that I'm starting to work on which involves lots of images, and new websites, and new and different stuff that's necessary for the project, but just clutter in any of the other accounts.
Because this project started out as something my man wanted to play around with, all of the beginnings of this are in his iPhoto and his iWeb, and they're well organized. I've not had luck so far moving the iPhoto and iWeb libraries to a new/blank user and maintaining the organization that I've spent time and attention making right.
He's not so great with technology, and gets very frustrated (and unproductive!) when anything on the computer doesn't work exactly like he expects it to. (When Lion came out and the scrolling went "the wrong direction" he was afraid to use the computer at all for a week, because "everything changed, I don't even know how to use it anymore" that's between us though, personal issure ). So I'd like to keep the user experience the same for him. I'd like to duplicate his settings, preferences, etc. into a new user for him, and take over his current account to isolate this project.
So, in summary:
I want to create a new account with the same user experience as a current account without having to find and reset all of his settings.
OR
I want an exact copy of the iPhoto and iWeb from this user account to another one, on the same machine.
I am currently running OSX 10.7.2, iPhoto '11 9.2.1 and iWeb 3.0.4
Thanks in advance for any help!

Kenzishly wrote:
I want to create a new account with the same user experience as a current account without having to find and reset all of his settings.
That's easy, if you have Time Machine or "bootable clone" backups. (If you don't, you should anyway. Post back if you need info on them.)
Use Migration Assistant to transfer just that user account from the backups; it will put up a screen saying it can't transfer it under the same name as the existing account, and allowing you to rename it.
Other than having a different name, the transferred account will be identical to the existing one. Then you can modifiy them separately as necessary.
EDIT: see Using Migration Assistant on Lion for detailed instructions. Be sure to un-check the boxes for eveything except that one user account.
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I can't migrate iPhoto library from time machine

I have my iPhoto library backed up on time machine and want to restore it to a new mac mini, but every time I try, I create a new account and a blank photo library!
If I try to get to the folder library in Finder on my Mac Mini I don't have permission to access.
The time machine back-up is from a MBP, and I can access the library & folder from my MBP laptop. Is my only option to restore to MBP and then migrate from there? (I'd like to avoid doing this, because its a 60gb library and will end up taking a few days to migrate twice (once from TM to MBP and once from MBP to MM)

Recover the iphoto library to a different location eg, a USB drive.. since there could be issues with the new photo app.

Manually migrate iPhoto 8 Library to iPhoto 9.5

Hi, I have a new MBP. Instead of using the Migration Wizard, and I want to manually move documents from my old MBP to the new one. I want a clean system, as there is a lot of cruft on the old machine from many prior migrations from machine to machine.
My first attempt at moving the iPhoto Library did not go well. I got the Unreadable Files error (1300 files) and iPhoto just hung thereafter. So, I want to try again. But, perhaps I'm not clear on the process of how to manually migrate the iPhoto Library. I did the following - is this correct, or should I have done something else?
Carbon Copy Cloner backup to external HD
Copied iPhoto Library from backup HD to /User/Pictures/ folder on new MBP
Opened iPhoto. It started importing and I went to sleep.
Awoke to review iPhoto import: Result was Unreadable Files error and a hung iPhoto
I had the following folders in /Users/Pictures: iPhoto Library_2 (this is what I copied from backup), iPhoto Library.photolibrary
System details:
Old MBP:
OSX 10.6.8
iPhoto 8.1.2
New MBP:
OSX 10.9.4
iPhoto 9.5.1
Should I have followed a different process?
Thanks in advance.

You screenshot does not display for me so I'm answering with the benefit of seeing it.
Opened iPhoto. It started importing and I went to sleep.
Did you try importing the iPhoto 8 library into a new library or just try to open the V8 library directly with iPhoto?
Get a fresh copy of the library from the EHD into the Pictures folder on your new Mac and do the following:
1 - copy the iPhoto 8.1.2 application from the EHD to the desktop, rename it iPhoto 8.1.2.app and place in your Applications folder.
2 - launch iPhoto 8.1.2 with the Option key held down, select the library and try to open. If it opens OK close iPhoto 8.1.2.
3 - launch iPhoto 9.5.1 with the Command+Option keys held down to open the First Aid window. Be sure to follow the circled recommendation in the screenshot.
3 - run Option #4, Rebuild Database.

Manually migrating iPhoto and iTunes from Snow Leopard to Lion..

Hi all,
I received a shiny new iMac yesterday and in my haste to get it up and running, I began to run the migration assistant on wi-fi. Unfortunately, my 2006 macbook model is so old that my firewire cables don't actually fit the firewire port on the back of the iMac!!
11 hours later, there was still 40 hours left to go. At this point I manually quit the migration assistant. Partly because I have to work and to work I need to use a computer and partly because I realised that I don't want all the old crud from my previous system.. all I want is my iTunes (songs, apps, playlists etc) and my iPhoto to migrate.
The original admin account that the migration assistant was going to replace was still there. Everything seems to be working fine... I did a quick repair of disk permissions and all seems fine. So, I think I flirted with danger by quiting the migration assistant, but danger doesn't seem to have flirted back.
I've searched high and low on the web and I can't find any advice on migrating just your iPhoto and iTunes from Snow Leopard to Lion. I did read a post somewhere (relating to a migration to Leopard) where someone wrote that, for iPhoto, you simply had to replace your iPhoto Library in your pictures folder on the destination machine and then simply start iPhoto. iPhoto would upgrade the databases etc and all would be fine in the world. I cannot find a post online that suggests that this is also the case for Lion.
Can anyone here give me some hints on how to manually migrate the iPhoto and iTunes libraries over (and still preserve playlists in iTunes, albums/events in iPhoto etc)?
I figure that I cannot be the only person in the world who wants a "fresh start" on their machine, with the exception of iPhoto and iTunes.

Resident apple gurus at work have advised me to use the migration assistant and plug an ethernet cable between machines.
I'll give this a go and then go through the process of removing and cleaning up whatever old data I can.. but if someone posts a response to this question for me, I'll happily roll back in time-machine and go again in a cleaner way. :-)

Migrating iPhoto to Aperture 3 and the case of missing photos

I love the new Aperture 3 and am so excited to migrate from iPhoto. I have used the Aperture feature of importing an entire iPhoto library directly into a new Aperture library. This doesn't produce any errors (except for a handful of missing photos which aren't too important), but when I look at the resultant Aperture library (8 hours later), I am missing a LOT of photos. My iPhoto library has about 24,000 photos and my Aperture library only has about 16,000. Because of the differences in the way Aperture and iPhoto keep track of edits, my Aperture library should have considerably more photos than iPhoto and not less. Please help!

In new iLife 09 (or iPhoto 09), some pics are now black in the Event, simply an outline of dotted lines. Yet, when I cursor fast, they appear, so I know there are still there.
That doesn't mean that they are "still there". It means that a cached version of the image exists.
I recall, when migrating photos it noted that the photos in iPhoto (old system) needed to be formatted to new iPhoto, so I allowed. Makes me wonder if something in a pic title or such is the issue.
That's a standard procedure when you upgraded to the later version of iPhoto. Happens every time to up a version, and to everyone.
With regard to Portrait. When I import from iPhoto to Aperture, any Portrait picture has a 2nd verson next to it, but in the Horizontal. All Horizontal pics, there is only the one version of the pic.
Your camera has an Auto-Rotate feature. However, the camera does not actually rotate any pixels in the file, but instead flags it with an instruction: "Display me this way". iPhoto, seeing the flag, reads the intention and creates a modified version. Hence the second version of the Portrait pics and no second version of the Landscape ones. The landscape ones don't have an auto-rotate tag.
For the dotted line problem, try rebuild your iPhoto Library: Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
Regards
TD

HT3231 Can you migrate iPhoto library from a Mac to Macbook Pro using migration assistant?

Can you migrate just an iPhoto library from a Mac to Macbook Pro using migration assistant? Both computers are on Mountain Lion.

How to correctly move your media:
iPhoto: How to move the Library to an EHD
It is important that the External Hard Drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled).
And also make sure that all is working to your Satisfaction before Deleting anything.

IPhoto 08 won't recognize my migrated iPhoto Library

I'm confused. I recently got a new iMac 24", and today I just received my Up To Date copy of OS X 10.5 and installed it, and then migrated my user files from my old Mac (an iMac G5). I was using iPhoto 6 on the old Mac. When I launch iPhoto '08 on the new machine, it can't find my iPhoto Library (which is in the Pictures folder), and when I try to choose the library, I can navigate to the iPhoto Library folder just fine and Open it, but what am I supposed to select inside the folder to choose the library? The files inside it are all grayed out.
Note that my old iPhoto Library is just a folder... it is not a package like iPhoto '08 creates if I tell it to make a new library. My current iPhoto Library works fine in iPhoto 6 on the old Mac (and has worked fine since the first version of iPhoto... I've been upgrading that library as I changed versions over the years).
Can anyone help?

Thomas
Are you using going : Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location.
You should get the opportunity to open the library at the iPhoto Library Folder - before you go into it.
If you don't get that opportunity, then iPhoto is not seeing a valid library file there. Perhaps something went wrong with the copy...
Regards
TD

Migrating iPhoto keywords to Aperture Keywords

There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding iPhoto keywords in Aperture. Aperture seems to treat keywords imported from iPhoto differently to keywords assigned in Aperture. Does anyone know a way to get the iPhoto keywords to display in the Keyword HUD? I think once we've achieved that we could successfully migrate our keywords into Aperture, arrange them in hierarchies etc.
Would be good. Ideas?

You can add them manually to the Keyword HUD. Make a top-level keyword called "iPhoto" and put all the iPhoto keywords under it. You can then remove them and add them using the keyword buttons.

Migrating iPhoto library

I'm about to transfer all my digital life to my new MacBook. No firewire-cable. I managed somehow iTunes, now it's for iPhoto (6000 Photos). What I did:
- transfer the old Libraty to my MacBook (it was iPhoto 4.0.3)
- I put it right away to /users/shared/... so everybody on my Mac can use the same library
- remvove ~/iPhoto
- so when opening I was asked to locate the library, what I did
- some importing and migrating progress bars
- now somehow finished, but I can not see any picture: not thumbnails, when dubbleclicking the beachball...
- new imported pictures appear as they shoud
The pictures are there (unfortunately not anymore in the same direcory-structure as before - I quite liked it accessing the pics without opening the application). But the application is somehow not able to work wiht it.
any help welcome
hello from snow-less Switzerland

Balz
Yes, iPhoto 6 introduces a new file structure: A Note about the iPhoto Library Folder:
In this folder there are various files, which are the Library itself and some ancillary files. Then you have three folders
Originals are the photos as they were downloaded from your camera or scanner.
(ii) Modified contains edited pics, shots that you have cropped, rotated or changed in any way.
This allows the Photos -> Revert to Original command - very useful if you don't like the changes you've made.
(iii) Data holds the thumbnails the the app needs to show you the photos in the iPhoto Window.
You might like to correct the file permissions on your data files using BatchMod to that they are correct following your move from the old machine. This is because the file ownership is probably unchanged from the old machine.
Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder.
Regards
TD

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