How To Get To Library On Mac El Capitan

Yesterday a reader left a question for me. It’s related to iPhoto. Well, I’ve to admit that I’m using Photos (yes, the upgraded version of iPhoto). Anyhow?

Dec 16, 2014 Make the User /Library Folder Always Visible in OS X El Capitan & Yosemite This is done on a per user account basis: From the OS X Finder, pull down the “Go” menu and choose “Home”, or otherwise navigate to the the Home directory for an active user account (the Home directory will be your short user name, where Downloads, Desktop, Public, Music, Pictures, etc folders are stored). Backup iPhone Files to Yosemite and El Capitan with iTransfer If you want to backup more iPhone files to Yosemite and El Capitan such as songs purchased or non-purchased from iTunes Store, videos downloaded from the Internet, and iPhoto Library photos, iSkysoft iTransfer for Mac can be your handy iPhone backup tools. After you launch iTransfer on your Mac Yosemite and El Capitan.

The question:

“Hi Tysa, I upgraded my old MacBook Pro to the OS 10.11 El Capitan, and now the iPhoto app won’t open. It says the version of iPhoto installed on my Mac is not compatible with the current OS X. And it asks me to download the latest version for free from the Mac App Store. I’m not sure what I should do. I don’t want to lose any precious photos. Please help.”

The solution:

Well, as far as I can recall. I faced similar problem while I was upgrading OS X Mavericks to Yosemite. The iPhoto app wouldn’t open, and it was resolved after download the new Photos app. Yes, according to Apple official announcement, starting with OS X Yosemite v10.10.3, every Mac now includes the Photos app.

I had no problem upgrading iPhoto to Photos app, and all my pictures were 100% kept intact there (thank God, had I known it would cause photo loss, I would have hesitated). So, I’d assume it’s safe to do so. But, just in case it’s best to backup all your pictures before proceeding.

How to upgrade iPhoto to Photos and migrate all pictures

Matt Elliott from CNET has contributed an excellent guide on how to move your photos and videos from iPhoto to the new Photos app, the details about iCloud Photo Library, how to optimize storage, and what you can do with your old iPhoto library.

Also, iDB has shot a great YouTube video which explains pretty much the same thing. If you are under Wi-Fi, watch it.

In the meanwhile, many users reported that the new Photos app is less intuitive, and it took time to get acquainted with using new software. If so, you can continue to use iPhoto but it has some restrictions on the versions you can use, and you have to reinstall the iPhoto app.

It is not a quick task, but it can be done.The first thing to do is establish which will be your Master & which your Slave.It is going to be very counter-productive if you keep adding tunes & playlists to both iTunes, as you will then never be able to synchronise them. One has to be 'in charge' the other merely a copy.I'm going to assume we're using the Mac as Master, Windows as Slave.Note: You are not going to be moving the default iTunes folder on either OS, only the Media folder location. Update itunes library on mac.

How to reinstall iPhoto app on Mac El Capitan

If you are not a fan of the new Photos app, Ross McKillop from SimpleHelp has a step-by-step guide that shows you how to re-install iPhoto on OS X El Capitan. Initially, the guide was written for OS X Yosemite, he later updated the post and claimed it works on OS X 10.11 as well.

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No matter which way you go for, you shouldn’t have any problems opening iPhoto (or Photos).

One last tip: do make regular backups of your precious pictures.

Yes, Apple has decided that everything except the kitchen sink should be stored online in iCloud and accessed on your MacBook, or anywhere else you have access to iCloud: first it was your iTunes music library, then your Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents, and now it’s your photographs and video clips! To turn the iCloud Photo Library feature on, click Photos → Preferences, click the iCloud tab, and click the iCloud Photo Library check box to enable it.

With iCloud Photo Library, your entire Photos Library is actually stored online, and everything in your Library is also accessible from other Macs and iOS devices like your iPad and iPhone. (Think “central storage house for everything visual that you can reach from anywhere with an Internet connection.”)

If you take a photo with your iPhone, for example, you’ll see it appear automatically within Photos — and if you’ve recently cropped and edited a photo to perfection with Photos, you’ll be able to retrieve that photo on any of your iOS devices or another Mac.

From the same iCloud pane in the Preferences dialog, you can choose to

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• store copies of the full-size images and full-resolution videos on your MacBook’s local hard drive (allowing you to edit or view the originals even when you’re not connected to the Internet). How to navigate to library folder in mac.

• store smaller size images and smaller-resolution videos on your laptop, but with the ability to retrieve the originals from the iCloud at any time (if you’re connected to the Internet).

Naturally, if you’re a photographer that needs constant, instant access to your original images, the first option is preferable (choose the Download Originals to this Mac option in the iCloud pane). However, if your MacBook’s drive is nearly full and you’d like to conserve space, the second option is very attractive (choose the Optimize Mac Storage option in the iCloud pane).

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All this goodness is handled automatically, but there’s a catch: your entire Photos Library needs to fit within your free 5GB of iCloud storage, or you’ll have to pay a monthly subscription to get additional elbow room! (Storage subscriptions range from $0.99 a month for 20GB of space to $19.99 a month for a whopping 1TB of space.)

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If you have only 3GB of photos, you may be able to use iCloud Photo Library without spending anything extra, but if your Photos Library is nearing 10GB in size, you would probably need to subscribe to take full advantage of the feature. The choice is yours, dear reader: if you decide not to use the iCloud Photo Library, rest assured that Photo Stream will still work as it did in iPhoto.