An iPhoto library is a database package that contains your photos and information that tells iPhoto how to display them to you, but sometimes the database gets scrambled so that even though your photos are in the iPhoto library iPhoto doesn't know how to find them and display them.ĭo the following steps. This might help you get your photos back if they are retrievable. Dear RC, I am just a user of this site like you, but I will suggest you try the following because your photos might still be there. Every once in awhile someone goes to the trouble to make a way to do something that seems blocked at every turn thanks so much for your generous contribution in saving my photos. Finally, I was able to download your link to get 9.6, and I can see my photos again at last.
I had to purchase iLife 11 from Ebay to get 9.0, then downloaded upgrade to 9.1, then downloaded upgrade to 9.4, both from Apple. I lost access to 2,400 photos in iPhotos when I changed my operating system from 10.6 to El Capitan. Opened Photos.app which imported the entire iPhoto Library successfully.
Opened the upgraded iPhoto Library in iPhoto 9.6.1, which reported 'This photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto.' After the upgrade process, all 5,238 items (including albums, metadata, etc) appeared intact! Free Download Iphoto 08 For Mac 10.7.5 Ran iPhoto Library Upgrader 1.1 (which now ran normally intead of returning 'Your library can open with the current version of iPhoto and does not need to be prepared with this tool' as above). It also manages to rebuild albums and folders.' Copied rebuilt iPhoto Library to new Mac running OS X 10.11.5. It starts with a fresh clean library and imports all the photos, including their meta data, such as location, faces, date. But it works differently from Apple’s approach.
As Christoph Bartneck explains, 'The software has a tool to recover corrupted libraries. IPhoto Library Manager.app File Rebuild Library.
Installed iPhoto Library Manager 3.8.6 (for Mac OS X 10.5.8 and iPhoto 7.1.5 and earlier).
Resolution: Copied original iPhoto Library to a third Mac running OS X 10.6.8 and iPhoto 6 (all 5,238 items appeared in iPhoto). Opening yet another copy of the original iPhoto Library in iPhoto Library Manager showed only the same 1,794 photos and misidentified the library as an iPhoto 8 library. Attempting to run iPhoto Library Upgrader 1.1 (which 'prepares libraries from iPhoto 7 or earlier so they can be upgraded with the current version of iPhoto') on yet another copy of the original iPhoto Library returned 'Your library can open with the current version of iPhoto and does not need to be prepared with this tool.' Rebuilding the iPhoto library on both the old and new Mac (by holding down Command and Option while starting iPhoto, etc) did not help. Photos Library displayed only 1,794 photos (through September 2010), even though all photos were found in /Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters and /Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Previews.ĭeleted Photo Library and iPhoto Library, manually copied iPhoto Library from old Mac again, relaunched both iPhoto and Photos - same result. This app neded for importing photos from old iPhoto, thank you! Missing photos after upgrading iPhoto 6 to iPhoto 9.6.1 or Photos 1.5 # Issue: Old Mac running OS X 10.6.8 with iPhoto 6 library containing 5,238 items Imported data, including iPhoto Library, to new Mac running OS X 10.11.5 and Photos 1.5. Thank you sooooo much! Made the jump from Snow Leopard to El Capitan for my wife's last generation White Macbook Unibody (2.4ghz) - and she has 400+GB of photos!!like 50,000 or so, give or take a few.thousand! So you can only imagine the hell I was in trying to get 'Photos' to accept that old version of iPhoto.wasn't working at all.did all sorts of gymnastics.finally read a thread where they said 'go find a copy of the last version of iPhoto (which of course Apple doesn't offer).you guys/gals are my heros! Pretty sure my wife would HATE 'Photos' anyway. Please upgrade your library 'iPhoto Library' using the free iPhoto Library Upgrader available from Apple.' The iPhoto Library Upgrader prepares libraries from iPhoto '08 (v7.x) or earlier so that you. Apple Mac iPad iPhone Watch TV Music Support Shopping Bag.