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TrimTheKing wrote:a pain but easily enough done by dual booting the new Mac I would think.
TrimTheKing wrote:1. Dual boot new Mac at a version compatible with the old version of iPhoto/photos, but as high as you can go.
2. Copy the old photo library externally then import into old version on dual boot.
3. Do the needful to bring it up to speed with that version (import into iPhoto/Photos).
4. Export photo library externally again, scrap dual boot old version, re-dual boot with another version that can take the library and upgrade.
4. Rinse and repeat until the library is at the version you need to import into new OS on new Mac.
Might take you 2-4 installs but it's eminently doable and I have done it before on my iMac.
And you don't need 10.9.5, you need the latest version that will accept the photo library from 10.9.5, AND will run on the new Mac. That information will be well within your Google powers to locate.
Andyp wrote:Most of that has gone over my head. But as my iMac is 11 years old now I have been following Roger's recent travails with interest
My late 2009 el capitan (10.11.6) is at least running photos 1.5 so I will have to assume that when the time comes upgrading from old photos to new photos would be less of a problem. Or am I being naive?
Andyp wrote:Most of that has gone over my head. But as my iMac is 11 years old now I have been following Roger's recent travails with interest
Woodbloke wrote:Andyp wrote:Most of that has gone over my head. But as my iMac is 11 years old now I have been following Roger's recent travails with interest
As is my iMac and I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5. so wot's all the bother about? I can still take pics on my iPhone/Pad which immediately upload to the main 'puter. The machine does everything I need it to do (which included all my inputs for Axminster) so I really can't be ar$ed to faff around with changing it. Why bother? - Rob
RogerS wrote:
Well, Rob, it depends on. how important your photos are to you. Assuming you are still on iphoto.
Woodbloke wrote:RogerS wrote:
Well, Rob, it depends on. how important your photos are to you. Assuming you are still on iphoto.
Mine are as important to me as yours are to you Rog, but I still have them all on iPhoto and they're all backed up on a 2T hardrive wot sits under the iMac. Currently I have 13,428 pics - Rob
Andyp wrote:Woodbloke wrote:RogerS wrote:
Well, Rob, it depends on. how important your photos are to you. Assuming you are still on iphoto.
Mine are as important to me as yours are to you Rog, but I still have them all on iPhoto and they're all backed up on a 2T hardrive wot sits under the iMac. Currently I have 13,428 pics - Rob
If I understand correctly what Roger is warning us about is when the time comes to replace the iMac* you wont loose the photos obviously but expecting to transfer in the same album and sort structure etc is not going to be a easy. Whether those helpful chaps in the Apple store can help I do not know but I think Roger has said in the past that access for him at his local one is not easy.
*I dont wish to tempt fate but even iMacs don’t last forever.
Andyp wrote:Woodbloke wrote:RogerS wrote:
Well, Rob, it depends on. how important your photos are to you. Assuming you are still on iphoto.
Mine are as important to me as yours are to you Rog, but I still have them all on iPhoto and they're all backed up on a 2T hardrive wot sits under the iMac. Currently I have 13,428 pics - Rob
If I understand correctly what Roger is warning us about is when the time comes to replace the iMac* you wont loose the photos obviously but expecting to transfer in the same album and sort structure etc is not going to be a easy. Whether those helpful chaps in the Apple store can help I do not know but I think Roger has said in the past that access for him at his local one is not easy.
*I dont wish to tempt fate but even iMacs don’t last forever.
Woodbloke wrote:Andyp wrote:Woodbloke wrote:
Mine are as important to me as yours are to you Rog, but I still have them all on iPhoto and they're all backed up on a 2T hardrive wot sits under the iMac. Currently I have 13,428 pics - Rob
If I understand correctly what Roger is warning us about is when the time comes to replace the iMac* you wont loose the photos obviously but expecting to transfer in the same album and sort structure etc is not going to be a easy. Whether those helpful chaps in the Apple store can help I do not know but I think Roger has said in the past that access for him at his local one is not easy.
*I dont wish to tempt fate but even iMacs don’t last forever.
I can see what Roger is driving at, but it's not the chaps in the Apple store who can help 'cos they're for the most part are just hard pushed and harassed shop assistants who have a lot of other folk to deal with. I've said it before, the people who really know what you can and can't do are the chaps in NI on the Apple Help Desk, who will quite literally spend as much time with you as is required to sort out any particular issue. Were I to change my Imac at some future date, I would certainly check with the Help Desk to see exactly what I needed to do to migrate my pics from the old machine to the new one. They're there to help and they've got me out of some very 'iffy' scrapes in the past - Rob
RogerS wrote:
You're still missing the point, Rob. Who do you think I was talking to when they told me that moving my photos from iPhoto on the old Mac to the new iMac was NOT supported and that they could NOT help?
Woodbloke wrote:RogerS wrote:
You're still missing the point, Rob. Who do you think I was talking to when they told me that moving my photos from iPhoto on the old Mac to the new iMac was NOT supported and that they could NOT help?
OK, so it can't be done as you suggest, but why can't you upload your existing pics on the old iMac to a series of usbs and then download them onto the new machine? It would take some time and were I to do it I'd be inclined to weed out all the duplicates (of which SWIMBO has created plenty ) to probably reduce the quantity by at least 40% - Rob
TrimTheKing wrote:So I refer you back to my original solution. It really wouldn’t be that much of a faff and I’m surprised the Apple geeks didn’t suggest it as an option because I can 100% guarantee you that I’ve done it, and it worked.
Woodbloke wrote:Andyp wrote:Most of that has gone over my head. But as my iMac is 11 years old now I have been following Roger's recent travails with interest
As is my iMac and I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5. so wot's all the bother about? I can still take pics on my iPhone/Pad which immediately upload to the main 'puter. The machine does everything I need it to do (which included all my inputs for Axminster) so I really can't be ar$ed to faff around with changing it. Why bother? - Rob
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Again if I understand correctly it is only the transfer from iPhoto to Photos while at the same time upgrading to the OSX in a new Mac with a different chipset that causes the problem. HTH.
RogerS wrote:TrimTheKing wrote:So I refer you back to my original solution. It really wouldn’t be that much of a faff and I’m surprised the Apple geeks didn’t suggest it as an option because I can 100% guarantee you that I’ve done it, and it worked.
Where do you get all the versions of OSX from ? I can't find them.
I know your solution works as you've done it. But for most of us mere mortals, I think it would be a struggle and a lot of research on how to do it all. Certainly I would find it hard and I rate myself a little bit above your average Mac user.
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