Reader Celia Drummond had a Mac crash so severe, she had to upgrade her system from Mavericks to El Capitan—I didn’t ask about Sierra—although she was able to recover her data from Time Machine.
However, after using the iPhoto Library Upgrader, Apple’s recommended path for converting iPhoto 7 and earlier libraries to a newer format that iPhoto 8 and 9 can use, “The result is photos a fraction of their original size—most were between 1MB and 7MB each—and all are pixelated.”
- Instead, Photos saves disk space by creating links to the original and preview versions of any images present in your old iPhoto library. In other words, your Photos libraries and their iPhoto counterparts are not gobbling up huge amounts of disk space together.
- May 16, 2015 - Download the compatible version of iPhoto onto the Mac. Can also launch iPhoto through the Terminal on a Mac – even if it's an older version.
- Forcing Any Version of iPhoto to Launch in OS X with the Terminal. If the above solution isn’t working for you for whatever reason, perhaps you don’t have internet access to download the last version of iPhoto, you can also launch iPhoto through the Terminal on a Mac – even if it’s an older version.
- Anyway i am hoping to get the old version. They are much easier to use and uses less hardware juices. If u know wat i mean:unsure: anyway would still hope to find a working edition of iphoto expres on the net.
Re-Installing iPhoto on 10.6.8. Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by tonmischa, Jun 18. I don't have any other Macs with an older iPhoto version. No, updating to Lion is not an option for me. Thanks, Michael. Here is a link to download the iPhoto 9.2.3 from apple along with other application files.
I never used the utility, so I don’t know what went wrong, but something did if that’s the outcome, or something is missing in the Time Machine backup. Because she can’t run the older version of iPhoto, she can’t simply rebuild the library, which is the usual suggestion. (I’d make sure you had version 1.1 via the link above, as older versions are out there, too.)
I’d normally suggest for forward version compatibility to try to find an intermediate version of software, which has been useful for folks with various older releases of the iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote). However, the only course of action with an iPhoto 7 library is apparently to run it through the upgrader; you can’t just try to open it in iPhoto 8 (or 9). (I don’t have older libraries to check this out, so I’m relying on Apple and forum posters.)
If the upgrader just won’t work with the old library, the only real solution is to crack open the library and extract ones photos.
- Control-click the iPhoto Library.
- Choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu.
- Drag (to move) or Option-drag (to copy) the Masters folder to the Desktop or to another drive.
- Launch the latest version of iPhoto 9 and import that Masters folder. Or launch Photos and do the same.
Unfortunately, you’ll lose a lot of information associated with photos and video that’s stored within the library, such as metadata, potentially some edits, albums, and other organizational elements. But this is better than losing the high-resolution versions of your media.
After importing the images and videos and making sure they’re the high-resolution ones you want, you can then use a de-duplication program, like PowerPhotos or Photosweeper 3 (review coming), which can clean up the low-resolution images and possibly help fix the missing metadata.
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iPhoto Library Manager helps you to organise all of your photos, allowing you to browse and search across all your libraries directly from one place.
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To avoid duplicate photos, iPhoto Library Manager lets you analyze your libraries side by side, giving you the opportunity to delete any extra copies that you don't really need. The application also enables you to merge multiple libraries into one, whilst removing duplicate photos in the process.
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A great feature of this application is that you can create multiple iPhoto libraries rather than storing everything in one mammoth library. Having a larger number of smaller libraries means you can archive photos that you don't use and organise the ones you use more often into categories, gaining you quicker access to the files you need, when you need them.