10.10.3 with Photos for OS X is out!

Sad Professor · 08-04-2015 6:08pm #1

Check your Software Update.

ZENER · 08-04-2015 7:36pm

Doodah7 · 08-04-2015 10:02pm

Updated just now without any issues. Fonts and screen seems sharper somehow on cMBP...

jack presley · 09-04-2015 10:01pm

I like to list my photos by event and in iPhoto you could view them 'new to old' so your most recent photos are at the top. In Photos though I can;t find a way to do this and they are listed old to new so I have to scroll down through a couple of hundred of events and thousands of photos to get to the latest photos. Fine if you only had to do it once but overtime it's a bit of a pain.

Am I missing something obvious to fix this?

10-04-2015 12:05am

Update did not work for me.
I am unable to restart my Mac :eek:

The black line during restart only goes ⅓ of the way across the screen & then it freezes.

Any advice appreciated.

IT-Guy · 10-04-2015 12:34am

2011 wrote: »

Update did not work for me.
I am unable to restart my Mac :eek:

The black line during restart only goes ⅓ of the way across the screen & then it freezes.

Any advice appreciated.

Any time machine backups? If so, CMD + R after the startup tone will get you into the recovery menu. If you've no backups then try the steps from Apple's support page here

10-04-2015 7:17am

IT-Guy wrote: »

Any time machine backups? If so, CMD + R after the startup tone will get you into the recovery menu. If you've no backups then try the steps from Apple's support page here

Thanks for the reply.

As it happened it just found itself after an hour or so.

Josey Wales · 10-04-2015 9:32pm

This update is taking me hours and hours to download. Never experience such slow speeds from the App store before.

creativedrinker · 11-04-2015 3:12pm

Photos is terrible! what are they thinking??

Sad Professor · 11-04-2015 6:59pm

I’m not happy about the demise of Aperture, but a cloud-based photos app for the Mac was long overdue. iPhoto should have been canned ages ago. Photos is fine and will grow in functionality alongside its iOS counterpart. I suspect a third party app along the lines of Pixelmator will soon fill the gap left by Aperture.

jack presley · 11-04-2015 7:34pm

jack presley wrote: »

I like to list my photos by event and in iPhoto you could view them 'new to old' so your most recent photos are at the top. In Photos though I can;t find a way to do this and they are listed old to new so I have to scroll down through a couple of hundred of events and thousands of photos to get to the latest photos. Fine if you only had to do it once but overtime it's a bit of a pain.

Am I missing something obvious to fix this?

I managed to change this manually. Took me ages to go through a couple hundred events but have them in the order I want now. Surely there should be an easy way of doing this, maybe we'll get it in an update.

faceman · 12-04-2015 2:21pm

Jesus. Didn't realise Photos replaced iPhoto. It's awful, clunky and requires more work to do simple things.

Can anyone recommend a suitable alternate photo management app?

I've been stung by iPhoto before corrupting data so I really need a reliable photo management tool.

Narcissus · 12-04-2015 7:05pm

faceman wrote: »

Jesus. Didn't realise Photos replaced iPhoto. It's awful, clunky and requires more work to do simple things.

Can anyone recommend a suitable alternate photo management app?

I've been stung by iPhoto before corrupting data so I really need a reliable photo management tool.

Google Picasa

JonMac · 15-04-2015 12:50pm

Is that correct that 10.10.3 automatically replaces iPhoto with Photos?
My 79 year old brother has spent dozens of hours getting iPhoto to work his way after taking my advice to switch to a Mac.
There would be hell to pay if he had to try to get Photos working to his satisfaction [and I'd be roped in].
That would mean he'll have to stay at his current version.

Zcott · 15-04-2015 1:36pm

It'll still be there, but you have to have version 9.6.1 for it to open. If you update without it, you won't be able to open iPhoto.

Diarmuid · 20-04-2015 2:22pm

JonMac wrote: »

That would mean he'll have to stay at his current version.

If he's happy with the current setup, then why upgrade?

JonMac · 25-04-2015 10:30am

Well, I found this quote: At some point you will want to fully migrate all your photos to one or more Photos libraries, because while you can still use iPhoto and Aperture, Apple is no longer providing support and at some point they will cease to work effectively with future OS updates.
He is only 79 so hopefully a lot of years left in him.

Diarmuid · 28-04-2015 2:27pm

I understand that. However maybe it's not worth upgrading to future OSX versions? If the computer and OS he currently has meets his requirements, then there's a lot to be said for sticking with it. It will still work just as well in 5/10 years time

jack presley · 28-04-2015 3:03pm

Location of photos can't be changed either on Photos I don't think. The GPS on my IPhone is obviously a bit wonky and was way off on some shots I took at the weekend but I couldn't find a way to fix them.

Josey Wales · 08-05-2015 10:04am

I notice when using an app like Disk Inventory X to see where HDD space is used on my Mac that my photographs show up in two different libraries; iPhoto and Photos.

I realise that there is really only one because my HDD isn't actually big enough to store two copies. However, the Photos library is 7GB bigger. Do other people notice this? I'm running low on HDD space which is why it is annoying me.

EDIT

Actually I think it is happening because when you make changes in Photos or add new photos it is not reflected in iPhoto.

10.10.3 with Photos for OS X is out!

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