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  1. FlyingToasterStrudel

    iPhoto library to Photos.app library migration – best strategies?

    Hello and thanks in advance for any help. I am faced with two different situations where I wish to upgrade/migrate an existing iPhoto library to Photos.app, and I'd like some advice on best practices before I proceed. SCENARIO ONE This one is the more straightforward of the two. On the...
  2. Pedro147

    procuring and running iPhoto on Big Sur

    I am trying to help a customer out in regard to retrieving 13GB of photos. They were originally in iPhoto but he cannot recall what OS his 2013 Macbook Pro was running when he upgraded to Big Sur. He is a bit vague on the full details so I am too unfortunately. He says that the 13GB of photos...
  3. kowens

    Help with iPhoto please

    Hello, I need help please. I bought a Portable SSD T7 (Samsung). My old portable hard drives had iPhoto libraries stored on them. The tech support at the store transfered my stored photos onto the new SSD. He knew I used a MacBook and formatted to that effect. My question(s) (and I have tried...
  4. W

    AppleID and old software

    This thread is about how to run software that I own and a newer computer, and the software is associated with an old AppleID but the new computer I have uses a new AppleID. This is not about the merits of the software. I was a die-hard longtime user of iPhoto since its first version, so you...
  5. N

    Photos vanished from from March 2014 in iPhoto/ Photos

    Hello All, I'm a long-time Mac user, and I had a 2011 (maybe 2012) Mac mini I was using a few years. In early 2018, I upgraded to a new Mac mini. Somewhere in this time, iPhoto became Photos. And then one day, I noticed one series of photos from a single trip I took were missing. Just...
  6. T

    Is there a Photos extension that would enable me to use the 'Big Date' Theme like iPhoto used to have?

    I make a calendar every year for my mom and i used to use iPhoto back in the day to make it with iPhoto. Now what i do is make the calendar in iPhoto in my REALLY old MacBook Pro (2008) and then use the PDF to send to Mimeo to make the calendar. However, my MacBook Pro is SOOOOOOO slow and would...
  7. Mostly Adequate

    iPhoto/Photos transfer between iMacs

    I have an old 2011 iMac which I need to pass on, but there’s an issue with iPhoto/Photos. The iPhoto library on that old Mac goes back to my original G4 Mac, being transferred to subsequent Macs as I upgraded. However, there was a spanner in the works when Apple replaced iPhoto with Photos. I...
  8. P

    iPhoto - 1000s of duplicates albums - how to delete

    So my iPhoto albums contains thousands of the same empty album. Where and how do I delete those?
  9. F

    iCloud iCloud photo - iPhone Storage

    HI! I've recently tried to convert all my photos (155k + many home videos)...taking up around 500GB of Google Photo space. I downloaded and uploaded all the pictures to iCloud from my MacBook and it seems to work fine except for storage on my iPhone. I have Optimize storage switched...
  10. Z

    all photos in one Photos app

    Is it possible to gather all the photos from the devices a user owns (iMac, iPhone, 2 iPads, MacBook) to one iPhoto app? Can i make for eg. the iMac’s iPhoto as the basic collective app for all the pics in all of the devices? Even if i have to do it manually, by using showing Package Contents of...
  11. D

    Mac mini for iTunes and iPhoto only

    I am using iTunes for music (large library on external USB drive) and iPhoto (large library on external USB drive),both on my 2017 MBP running Mojave. I am thinking about getting a Mac mini to stay on Mojave just for iTunes and iPhoto, so I can then upgrade my MBP to Big Sur when available. I do...
  12. P

    How do I transfer selected photos from 'photo to iPhoto'?

    I am using OS High Sierra on my Mac. I can't update any further due to the age of my Mac. I want to select photos from a vacation that are currently in 'Photos' and copy or transfer them to 'iPhoto'. I've tried dragging and dropping but this doesn't seem to work. Copy and paste doesn't seem to...
  13. F

    200gb iphoto library, how can I reduce this?

    Hi all, I am migrating my daughters macbook pro to a macbook air which has a much smaller hard drive. The iphoto library on the pro is more than 200gb and the photobooth library is also nudging up to 100gb. I can get her to delete some videos - but what is the best way to do this in iphoto...
  14. R

    Can someone help out with a Photos question? Trying to merge current Photos and upgraded iPhoto.

    I've got an old iPhoto library that I thought I'd merged successfully with my iCloud Photos/Photos on Catalina, but I was mistaken. The iPhoto library is larger than the iCloud Photos, so I've got a thought, and I need to be talked into it or out of it. If I take my current Photos library on...
  15. J

    Live photos splitting in Photos app

    Hi there! So I've been doing some house keeping of my photo libraries. I've found that about 80% of 'Live Photos' from a roughly 1/2 year period have created their own small 2/4 second video clip alongside the live photo itself. - Ie you've see your selection of photos you can hover over that...
  16. maverick28

    The "To:" field clears itself of a particular address, refuses to be populated, composing a msg in iPhoto

    Hi, I faced a weird situation when the address in question being typed into the "To:" field, composing the message within iPhoto app, does not populate it when selected from the dropdown menu, although it auto-completes as soon as I start typing it. At first, I thought this can be a formatting...
  17. jmoritz

    Resolved photos couldn't be copied because you don't have permission to access

    Hi All, I have saved my photos from an older work iPhone on an external LaCie Drive under a folder called iCloud Photos. The reason I did it was because they were all sitting in my professional iCloud account and wanted to move them to my personal iCloud account. When I try to import them into...
  18. M

    Why can't Photos import iPhoto photograph exports with the correct metadata?

    I have many iPhoto libraries and I am trying to export them all to Photos so that I have a Photos library (System Photo Library) containing all the photographs I have. I want to preserve how the they are exactly on iPhoto, the original date, time, edits, icon positioning in the gallery view...
  19. Red_Tiger

    Download iPhoto Library from iCloud

    Hi There, I hope this message finds you well. I own a MacBook Pro 15" late 2011: -500 GB SSD for the OS (partitioned for both Mac & Windows 10 Bootcamp) used 60/70% of this drive -1 TB HDD in the optical drive bay used to store files (including music and iphoto libraries) used 70% of this...
  20. E39SourceRyan

    iTunes Doesn't See Photos

    I know, I'm old school. I still sync photos to my iPhone XS from my Photos library, via iTunes. How else would I get DSLR photos from my Mac to phone? In their proper album? There's no way that I know of. So in iTunes, I go to the iPhone screen, then the photos tab on the left, and check...