Missing photos after migration from iPhoto to Photos

Last week I upgraded my desktop MacPro from OS 10.9.latest to OS 10.10.3. When I first opened Photos, it did the migration from iPhotos without apparent problem. But I have noticed that many (hundreds at least) of the photos from my pre-migration iPhoto library are now not in Photos. I mounted my pre-upgrade backup drive on a laptop running OS 10.9.latest, and can find specific missing photos OK on the backup. But if I search the main drive on my desktop Mac, for example for "P1440608", I get no results. I have tried rebuilding the Photos library with no change - the missing photos are still missing.
One option is to erase my MacPro main drive and restore from the backup drive to OS 10.9.latest. This should put me back to where I was. Is there a viable alternative? Please note that my iPhoto version was 8.1.2. It will not open in OS 10.10.3, and the App Store will not let me upgrade to the most recent version. I do have Time Machine plus external bootable (SuperDuper) backup of the desktop MacPro, plus that laptop running OS 10.9.latest as resources available.

Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - run Option #4 to rebuild the database.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button and select the library you want to add in the selection window..
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
OT

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I understand that your current iPhoto Library and the photos therein are not being shown in the new Photos app. Here is an article that will help you choose this library file for you to use:
Designate a System Photo Library in Photos - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204414
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I just upgraded to OS X 10.10.3 and the Photos App, however when I started to migrate my iPhoto libraries (have nine(9) libraries) no pictures show up on the third one I migrated. I checked and the migrated library file has been created (11.3 GB) however nothing shows up when I select the library file and open it.
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Delete the migrated version, repair the Library with iPhoto and try again.
Option 1
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. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

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Try these for the first attempt:
First be sure to have a backup copy of the library if you already don't have one.
OT

When my photos were moved from iPhoto to Photos in the last system upgrade, they lost all their titles. How can I restore them?

In the latest Yosemite upgrade, my photos were migrated from iPhotos to Photos and lost all their titles. How can I restore them?

There is an Applescript, File Name to Title, provided by user léonie that will put the file name of any selected photos into the Title field for that photo. If there already is a title in that field under the thumbnail it will not replace it with the file name.
tell application "Photos"
activate
set imageSel to (get selection) -- get a list of selected images
set counter to 1
set currentfilename to ""
if imageSel is {} then
error "Please select an image."
else
repeat with im in imageSel
set title to the name of im
if not (exists (title)) then
set currentfilename to the filename of im as text -- retrieve the filename of image "Im"
set newname to currentfilename & "." & counter
set counter to counter + 1 -- increment the counter
set the name of im to newname -- write the newname to the title field
end if
end repeat
end if
return currentfilename -- return the filename of the last image
end tell
Copy the script above, open Applescript Editor and past it into the open window. Compile and save as an Applescript application. Put the app in the Applications folder and drag into the Dock. Now you can select images in Photos and launch the app from the Dock and it will do it's thing. It is a bit slow so can take some time for a large number of images depending on the speed of your Mac.
Just to be on the safe side create an album with a few titled and untitled photos and run it on them.

HT201386 migrating from IPhoto to Photos

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You were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement when signing up for the beta program:
CUSTOMER SEED AND CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT
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Launching Photo for the first time started the import of the default iPhoto library, when finished the problem is not everything has been imported.
I have not done photo by photo check, but for instance all 2014 photos are missing and since I see less photo in previous years and in 2015 also photos from other years are missing.
I can't reimport the iPhoto library (I have not been able to find how), so my question is how can I import the whole iPhoto library to Photos?

First off that is a bad practice - never have any computer program delete things - import photos and keep them - after at least one successful backup cycle has taken place and you are sure your photos are safely on the Mac and backed up then use the camera's format command to erase and reformat the card
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LN

HT204655 How to have a unified Photos Library after migrated from iPhoto and Aperture?

The "HT204655: Get started with Photos for OS X" do not help. If you have previously used iPhoto and Aperture, when you "migrate" the iPhoto, then follow the steps to "migrate" the Aperture library, you end up with 5 files in your Pictures folder: Photos Library (from iPhoto), Photos Library 2(from Aperture), iPhoto Library (Not sure if can be deleted or not - of course no), Aperture Library (for some reason blank), Aperture Library 2 (Created by Photos?).
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I've a hope that exists a solution to have a single Photos Library with the merged iPhoto and Aperture contents, like a real migration.
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Are you planning to keep all your photos in iCloud? Then consider to merge them in iCloud, but it will take a long time.
Are you using iCloud Photo Library (Beta) and have enough iCloud storage for the merged library?
Wait, till your current Photos Library has been completely uploaded to iCloud.
Then quit Photos, and launch it again, while holding down the alt/options key. Select the old iPhoto lIbrary.
When the upgrade of the old library has been finished, make this library the System Photos library (in the Photos Preferences > General).
Enable again iCloud Photo Library (Beta) in the Photos > iCloud preferences.
Now Photos will upload the new library to iCloud as well and create a merged library in iCloud. After this merged library synced with your Mac, you will have a merged Photos library.

Loosing Photos after syncing from iPhoto...........

I synced a couple of albums from iPhoto onto my iPod. Went back and wanted to get a couple more. Synced those and lost the others. I did a search, and was unable to get a concrete answer. Please answer this. I have a large family gathering coming up later this afternoon and want to show the pix.
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Lyle

No, the old albums weren't on the new sync,
but........I read a little and tried rebuilding the
iPhoto library. Then I went back to iTunes and did
another sync. This time I included the albums that I
was missing plus the NEW ones I wanted. This time it
worked. All the albums were uploaded to the iPod.
Only this time, I noticed that it didn't take as long
to upload the old ones to the iPod. I don't know why,
but, after this rebuilding of the library, everything
stayed on the iPod. If anyone has an explanation, I'd
like to hear why this happens.
Thanks:
Lyle
if you're asking why it deletes the old ones if you don't select to update them when you put new ones on it, that's just the way itunes is set up. they try to make it so you only put the photos on there that you want, in case you don't want the old photos anymore.

How do I continue a migration from iPhoto to Photos that was interrupted part way through?

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The process was very slow and has taken days, but that is expected and it was definitely making progress (I could see the files being added over time). Unfortunately, the transfer was interrupted part way through (my kid closed my laptop, which disconnected it from the network). I tried to start it over with the partially created Photos library folder as the destination, hoping that it would pick up where it left off. It worked until it reached the same files that were previously created. The migration stopped at that point, and the following error appeared: "Photos was unable to make a copy of your library before preparing it. There were file system or hardware issues…” I assume the inability to overwrite previous files with the same names was the case of the "file system or hardware issues."
Is there any way to either continue the migration from where I left off, or maybe even manually move the rest of the files over? Or do I have to wipe out the entire partially migrated Photos library and start over?

You probably will have to start over
And I suspect that you are incorrect - as far as I know NO NAS is formatted Mac OS extended - A NAS is basically a Linux computer with no display or keyboard that uses a Linux format drive - a headless computer
Unless you have a directly connected drive correctly formatted you are cgoing to continue to have issues - your photos and your choice what risk you put them at but you are treading in very dangerous water with you set up - is it documented not to work and similar set ups have been reported here hundreds of times as causing major problems and losing lots of stuff
LN

Migrating from iPhoto to Photo

I don’t know what anyone else's experience has been doing the migration, but I found it hellish.
I have about 13,000 pictures which were arranged in 255 albums. When they were in iPhoto these albums were all neatly ordered ( not necessarily in time sequence, but as the ’story’ of the album demanded) and each photo labelled - an easy enough task with iPhoto, using Batch Rename. Added to which you could control the order photos appeared in either by time taken (useful if you’re amalgamating several people’s photos of one event like a family christmas) or by title. In other words, whatever its other faults, I found iPhoto pretty easy to use for what I wanted.
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I just wish I’d known that I could have gone on using iPhoto regardless and ditched the new app! The trouble is that in the course of the migration I spent a lot of time refining my albums and if I revert to iPhoto I lose all that work. And I do like the revamp of Faces. So there I am between a rock and a hard place, until Apple reinstate Batch Rename.
Maxdot

So there I am between a rock and a hard place, until Apple reinstate Batch Rename.
Maxdot
We posted a few Apple Scripts in the User Tip section of this forum to help with batch changing. It is only a workaround, but can speed up things a little. see this page: User Tips (7)
Have a look at Photos for Mac: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename
Also at this discussion for more elaborate versions of the script: Re: Re: Where are photo file names?

Migrating from iphoto to photos - missing years of pictures

Updated to Photos application yesterday..... When I opened it, I noticed all photos from 2000 - 2010 were GONE!!!! The previews still showed in the Photos app, but the original master was not in the library any more so I could not export the photos or email them.
Subsequently did a time machine reset, but since time capsule is only 1TB apparently overnight a new backup of my photo library had been done (50.000 pictures) and time machine was forced to purge the old library. So, the backup was useless. By going back in time machine I also lost the previews that Photos had cached, so now literally thousands of photos are forever lost....
Very, very, very disappointed.

Creating a Photos library should not have damaged the iPhoto library. All those photos should still be in the iPhoto library (assuming managed files, the usual case). Launching iPhoto should work (after an initial warning) and show them all.
Also, if backing up your photo library (either one) causes Time Machine to flush the previous version immediately or even overnight, your Time Machine volume is not large enough. The sizing guideline for the Time Machine volume (either a Time Capsule or a regular external drive) is usually quoted somewhere around three; that is, the Time Machine volume should be three times as large as the used space on the volume(s) being backed up at a normal level of update activity. A higher ratio allows more look-back at a given activity level or more activity with the same look-back period.

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I just updated iPhoto from '08 (v7.1.5) to '11 (v9.5) and I opened a copy of my old '08 library. Unfortunately iPhoto '11 does not show any events or photos from this library. If I view the contents of the library in Finder I see that it still contains a 40 GB 'Originals' folder, but the 'Masters' folder is empty. Is there a more involved upgrade procedure - that is, instead of simply choosing the old '08 library upon start up?
I saw this earlier question https://discussions.apple.com/message/23844703#23844703. Though the problem sounds similar the solutions was to give up on importing and adding the photos manually. There must be a way to preserve my albums, no?
Thanks.

Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - run Option #4 to rebuild the database.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 - click on the Add Library button and select the library you want to add in the selection window..
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option.
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
OT

Migrating from iPhoto to Photos

I upgraded to Yosemite so iPhoto no longer works, but my photos did not migrate to Photos. When I try to open iPhoto, it tells me to upgrade and gives me a link to the AppStore. (Of course, iPhoto is no longer available in the AppStore.) I was expecting to get a dialog box asking me if I wanted to migrate my photos. How do I get the "migrate" option?

You migrate a Library by opening it:
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch Photos. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
You can download iPhoto from the App Store.
Go to the App Store and check out the Purchases List. If iPhoto is there then it will be v9.6.1
If it is there, then drag your existing iPhoto app (not the library, just the app) to the trash
Install the App from the App Store.
Sometimes iPhoto is not visible on the Purchases List. it may be hidden. See this article for details on how to unhide it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4928
One question often asked: Will I lose my Photos if I reinstall?
iPhoto the application and the iPhoto Library are two different parts of the iPhoto programme. So, reinstalling the app should not affect the Library. BUT you should always have a back up before doing this kind of work. Always.

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