I bought into the apple eco-system in 80s and 90s because things "just worked". I'm starting to question that loyalty. I finally upgraded to a MBP 14" after nursing a beautiful 2010 13" MBP along. Of course many things don't work anymore. But the most irritating issue so far is as follows:
I have thousands of video clips in iPhoto that I imported into Photos in the process of the upgrade (manually, migration assistant no help). This is family history. I just noticed that about 400 clips from 2006-2008 didn't transfer. These are .avi files generated on a Casio Exilim during those years. They have played without issue in QuickTime on multiple old MacBook Pros and Macs, and were previously easily accessed from within iPhoto. After the attempted import into Photos, they don't appear (no warning about this by the way. I just had to notice they were missing). In troubleshooting, in opening one of these files from an external disk I get a message "This file contains some media which isn’t compatible with QuickTime Player. Would you like to open anyway?" When I do, there is just audio available. This is part of the reason I resisted changing my computer for so many years. I anticipated simple things like watching a clip I had watched without issue previously to just mysteriously stop working. I believe I have the latest version of Quicktime. I'm trying to avoid processing all of these files in some sort of format altering program. I really don’t want to lose time/date stamps, as that’s part of the history. I don't think that what I am wanting is too much to ask for: organize old clips that previously could be watched. I mean, half the apple ads show happy folks watching clips on their Macs. Any suggestions? Thank you very much in advance!
I have thousands of video clips in iPhoto that I imported into Photos in the process of the upgrade (manually, migration assistant no help). This is family history. I just noticed that about 400 clips from 2006-2008 didn't transfer. These are .avi files generated on a Casio Exilim during those years. They have played without issue in QuickTime on multiple old MacBook Pros and Macs, and were previously easily accessed from within iPhoto. After the attempted import into Photos, they don't appear (no warning about this by the way. I just had to notice they were missing). In troubleshooting, in opening one of these files from an external disk I get a message "This file contains some media which isn’t compatible with QuickTime Player. Would you like to open anyway?" When I do, there is just audio available. This is part of the reason I resisted changing my computer for so many years. I anticipated simple things like watching a clip I had watched without issue previously to just mysteriously stop working. I believe I have the latest version of Quicktime. I'm trying to avoid processing all of these files in some sort of format altering program. I really don’t want to lose time/date stamps, as that’s part of the history. I don't think that what I am wanting is too much to ask for: organize old clips that previously could be watched. I mean, half the apple ads show happy folks watching clips on their Macs. Any suggestions? Thank you very much in advance!