![]() ![]() This tip, and the whole website are brought to you by Geeks on Tour. This video shows you the process: (please note the comment by Michele below – make sure to check that all your pictures did, indeed, get imported. Picasa for Mac provides the tools to do the work quite easily. If you’ve been thinking about using Picasa, the announced end of iPhoto gives you the reason to do that now. So, this process of “migrating from iPhoto to Picasa” is really just copying all the pictures out of your iPhoto library and putting them into folders where Picasa – or any other program that works with. jpg files in your computer’s filing system. It is a tool for viewing, organizing, and editing that works with the individual. Picasa, on the other hand is not a container for your photos. All your pictures are inside that ‘package’ and you can only view them using iPhoto. If you look at your Mac’s folders and files (using Finder,) you will only see one – very large – file for your iPhoto LIbrary. You see, iPhoto keeps all your pictures in its proprietary library structure. I recommend following this procedure now just to be sure that your pictures are not held hostage by iPhoto. It sounds a lot like Google+ Photos actually, especially the Auto Backup part! Of course, Apple is providing a migration path to its Photos app and, with full integration of iCloud Photo Library, I expect that this is going to be a very good option. I can’t find any information on whether you will still be able to use the iPhoto you currently have, or whether it will stop working like on the iPad. ![]() The Macintosh version will wait till sometime next year when OSX Yosemite is released. The iPhoto App on the iPad is already disabled if you upgraded to iOS 8. Apple is putting all your photos into one basket called simply, “Photos.” It will no longer be offering either of its current photo management tools, iPhoto or Aperture. If you can’t find the right folder, open Apple Photos app, go to ‘settings’, ‘general’, and under ‘Library Location’ it should show where your photos are stored.In case you haven’t heard, iPhoto is going away. ![]() The photo’s are arranged in folders under the years and months they were taken. You can then open the photos one by one, copy them, or do what you like with each picture. Click on a year, then a month, and you will see all the pictures from your iPhoto library from that month. Now you will see a new folder with a lot of years. Find the one called ‘Originals’ and click on it. Instead, if you hold down the control key while you click, you will see an option called ‘Show Package Contents.’ Click on this. Don’t do this, but if you were to click it then it would try to open in iPhoto, or Photos. If you have used iPhoto, then in the ‘Pictures’ folder there will be a file called ‘iPhoto Library’. If you go to your home directory, there is a folder called ‘Pictures’ where Apple stores all your photos. Here’s how to access an individual photo from an old iPhoto library. When I tried to open the iPhoto library with the newer Photos App, it wanted to upgrade the entire iPhoto library. Recently I was trying to access some photo’s from my Mum’s iPhoto library on her time machine backup, but my computer doesn’t have iPhoto, it has Photos App. ![]()
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