Problem migrating Iphoto library to Photos
installed 10.10.3 and Photos will not recognize (grayed out) when I attempt to import my pics from iphoto (v9.6.1) In Photos preferences it knows that my Iphoto library (on an internal drive that is not my boot drive) but that is grayed out as well. I have also tried to drag & drop but no luck.
Apologies, that was a typo - force of habit and two terribly similar app names.
Holding down the alt key in Photos will give you an option to either select or create a Library - which is the same in iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture etc.
You need to be sure you press and keep the alt key down while clicking on the icon for Photos, and don't take you finder off until the chooser appears...
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Unable to migrate Iphoto Library to Photos app from an external harddrive?
I have a 1TB external harddrive that contains my 250+ GB IPhoto Library. However, whenever I try to open it up in the new photos app, I get an error saying the library cannot be opened because it is on an unsupported disk format. Apple has a "solution" to this problem, but the means of solving it aren't feasible in my case. I don't have enough space to copy 250GB onto my internal drive, hence why its on an external hard drive.. Does anyone else have a solution?
Hi Ksevv
As A.Fruit said you will need to quit the photos.app and as well the iPhoto. When you restart the Photos app, hold down the 'alt-option' key (not the Shift-key) and the choose your library from the Photos app in the pop-up window. The path of the library is indicated on the window, so do ensure that you pick your right library in case you have multiple ones. The Photos app, will prepare the import and takes its time, so be patient. Also be aware, that if you have iCloud Photo library activated, this will go against your 5GB free storage, so if you need to store your photos in the iCloud, ensure that you have enough space.
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How do i fix permissions problems in migrating my iPhotos library to photos?
I am getting this notification when i try migrating my iPhotos library over to photos
my iPhoto library is stored on an external hard drive. any ideas how to fix this? I've tried doing a permission repair through iPhotos but that didn't help.I am unable to migrate iPhoto library to Photos, get message that there is not enough disk space.
Also can not open iPhoto after the Yosemite upgrade. Get message saying that my iPhoto is not compatible.
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Can't import iPhoto library into Photos
I updated Yosemite today which installed the new Photos app. It did not automatically import my iPhoto library. I was able to sign on to Photo Sharing, so those photos did import into my new Photos library.
My problem is that my iPhoto library is in my "shared" home folder, rather than my individual home folder. In order to open the "Shared" Pictures folder, you need to right click and choose "Show Package Contents" to see any of the files inside. When I do that via Finder, I see a Library file, but it was last updated in 2011. I assume that is not the file I need. But there are no other library files within that folder. I even tried to use "Open with..." and chose Photos for it, but nothing was imported. When I try to click the "Pictures" folder via Photos open library functions (when you open Photos, pressing the Option button), it is shaded out and unable to open.
When I open iPhoto, my library appears to be functioning and everything is there. But I don't see an option within iPhoto to export the library so that Photos may have access to it.
I just can't for the life of me figure out how to find the file I need to import into Photos.You do not want to import the Masters folder from your iPhoto library into Photos. You will lose all of your edits, keywords, etc.
Instead move the iPhoto Library to your Pictures folder and make sure it's running correctly before trying a conversion. Run the First Aid procedures if need be.
Once you've confirmed it's running OK launch Photos with the Option key held down, click on the Other Library button, navigate to the Pictures folder and select the iPhoto Library to convert.
If you think you may want to continue to use iPhoto until you're comfortable with Photos make a copy of the iPhoto Library before converting. -
Hard drive packed up, but had Time Machine backup. I installed new ssd and upgraded to Mountain Lion, but I can't find iPhoto library and photos or iTunes songs? Is there an answer to this? A backup run did not install either photos or songs. Graham
Thanks so much but none of that helped. It was driving me crazy because it would back up another external drive. I just changed the name of the drive from iPhoto/iTunes Library to Media Libraries and IT WORKED!! I guess for some reason it didn't like the drive being called iPhoto or iTunes ???? I don't understand but I have tried so many solutions and exchanging things out but the name change did it????!!!
Thank you for your help and replying to this. Guess I made my own issue! -
I Just converted my iPhoto library to Photos. Now I can't find my RAW files. I need to have all the images in my old library show up in their RAW format.
Unfortunately no - Photos use extensions and the vendor (adobe) will have to implement the extension to allow external edits in PS or PSE
For now you must export the photo, edit and then import - not great but a work arond
And you can continue to use iPhoto until Photos meets your needs - launch it in your applications folder - if you need assistance on this see Why won't my iPhotos open?
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Can I delete iPhoto amd iPhoto library once Photos is in place
Can I delete iPhoto amd iPhoto library once Photos is in place, or iPhoto is still useful.
Yes - but don't.
Wait until Photos matures. Both libraries will live side by side. As will the apps. You can still open your iPhoto library with iPhoto. -
Why is my iPhoto Library duplicating photos
why is my iPhoto library duplicating photo's, sometimes 3 times ?
Your iPhoto library is not duplicating anything. Give virtually no information the only guess is that you imported an old iPhoto library into a new one. NEVER import one photo library into another one. If you did and still have the old library you can easily recover. Drag the library you messed up to the desktop and drag the old library to the pictures folder and launch iPhoto
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I updated my OS to 10.10.3. but now can't access my iPhoto library in Photo.
I have an iMac (20 inch, Mid 2007) with a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDRs SDRAM and have over 400 mega bits of pictures on a partitioned external drive: 2 TB G-Technology by Hitachi connected by FireWire 800 to my iMac. My iPhoto application no longer reveals what version of iPhoto I have, but it was last updated on Dec 14, 2013 with a 1.7 GB file.
Tried dragging from its place on external hard drive.
When I go into the iPhoto it says it is not compatible with OS X Yosemite but the link offered to App Store says they do not have an update.
Help?Apple dropped both iPhoto and Aperture with the Yosemite release, and I am not happy about that as I used Aperture, but try holding down the option key when you click on the Photos icon. That should bring up a box asking what library you want to connect to. In my case it had both Aperture and Photos. But there is also a choice called "other" that I would think would allow you to navigate to where your library is located and select it.
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Having installed aperture 3 and imported iphoto library (15000 photos) Apertue 3 does not render most of my photos corectly most a blurred pixellated and distorted. Reverting to photo produces perfect results. Any suggestions
Galdaplh,
What do you mean by "reverting to photo"? "Revert" is not a function in Aperture so you must be talking about something else.
If you just performed the import of that many photos, Aperture will take some time to generate thumbnails. You can see if it is doing this sort of thing by {Command}-{Shift}-0 to show the Activity window.
Once Aperture generates all its thumbnails, you will have nearly instantaneous access to much, much better thumbnails than Aperture uses immediately after importing photos.
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Deleting iPhoto library after Photos is installed
Once the Photos Application is installed and is running, can the original iPhoto library(s) be deleted to recover space?
OmniDiskSweeper is confused.
Photos is using an OS X feature (actually, it's a UNIX feature) called "hard links" which makes it LOOK like there are two copies of a photo, but in fact there is only one on disk. If you "delete" one of them, one of the links will be removed, but the original photo itself will only be removed from disk if the second "link" is deleted (making the "link count" to the photo 0).
This makes it look like twice the space is taken up, but in fact that's wrong.
Once you have safely imported your iPhoto library to Photos, you can delete the iPhoto library and Photos will be fine. HOWEVER, Apple (and I) STRONGLY recommend that instead of deleting the iPhoto library, that you archive it off on storage somewhere, and leave it there for a long time "just in case" anything bad ever happens. Because if you don't, and you lose the photos, I'll be all out of sympathy -
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.
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I imported photos from iPhoto library to Photo library instead of relinking the library and now approx. 9,000 photos are missing. How do I fix this?
Trash your Photos library and do it again (Hold down the option key while launching Photos and select your iPhoto library to open)
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Is it a good idea to migrate my 200 gb iphoto library to photos in yosemite?
Right now im in Mavericks in my imac, running iPhoto 9.5.1. It stores all that I have taken in the past 10 years. My imac now only has 30gb left. What steps do I take, im freaking out..I don't want to lose all my awesome family vacay, baby pics etc..
Here's what im planning and tell if this could be a big mistake.
I will backup my library as a copy on an external and then time machine it also. After that I will Update my system to Yosemite. After Yosemite update I will go to my app store and under purchases I will click the iPhoto update button (even though it says iphoto was purchased in 2011, Im assuming its still safe to update it that way because its the only way to update the app). Then after iPhoto is updated to 9.6.1, I will then open it up and make sure is was safely updated. Then after I make sure all of my stuff is in the new updated iPhoto I will try and migrate it to photos. (not sure of the exact steps on this) After I migrate the whole 200gb library to photos I will then pay for and turn on icloud 500gb storage and use my library from here on out through the cloud. Backing up the library off of icloud every so often. (keep in mind I will still have only about 30 gb left in my internal hd) This brings me to another question. Does anybody know how much extra space you need on your internal HD to migrate from iPhoto 200gb library to the photos app. I know in the end it wont take up any extra space on you internal HD, but I do know that it does take extra space during the migration but I just don't know how much extra..
Over all I need some feedback on my plan, I don't want to lose any pics or videos and I also just don't know where to go from here with continual photo storage.
Thanks Community!Your plan is generally OK, but I would suggest a different approach, since you're so frazzled by it.
1. Update iPhoto first; check and backup the iPhoto Library;
2. Upgrade to Yosemite; This will prompt you to migrate to Photos, but you don't have to do it, so don't!
3. iPhoto 9.6.1 will remain in your Applications folder and you can continue to use it;
4. Learn more about Photos, it's features and how iCloud Photo Library really works (for example, once you turn it on, you won't need to download manually);
5. When you do feel you know enough about Photos, only then launch it to migrate your photos; after migration your iPhoto Library remains fully functional, in case you want to revert to using iPhoto, so that part should not worry you.
Thet biggest issue you have is the small amount of free space. You might want to address tha first, or locate your new Photos Library on an external drive as well, and only move it to your local drive when it's been optimized (or keep it on an external). -
Migrating my 292 Gb iPhoto library to Photos requires 438 Gb disk space ?!!!
I'm trying to migrate my iPhoto library to the new Photos, but it gets stuck at 8% of the process, requiring "at least 438GB of disk space".
My 35,236 items library has only 292 Gb and, as far as I understood, Photos would use the same files... so, why is it asking for that much space???
Thanks!Your plan is generally OK, but I would suggest a different approach, since you're so frazzled by it.
1. Update iPhoto first; check and backup the iPhoto Library;
2. Upgrade to Yosemite; This will prompt you to migrate to Photos, but you don't have to do it, so don't!
3. iPhoto 9.6.1 will remain in your Applications folder and you can continue to use it;
4. Learn more about Photos, it's features and how iCloud Photo Library really works (for example, once you turn it on, you won't need to download manually);
5. When you do feel you know enough about Photos, only then launch it to migrate your photos; after migration your iPhoto Library remains fully functional, in case you want to revert to using iPhoto, so that part should not worry you.
Thet biggest issue you have is the small amount of free space. You might want to address tha first, or locate your new Photos Library on an external drive as well, and only move it to your local drive when it's been optimized (or keep it on an external).
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