What a fine mess you've got me in Stanley! I like iphoto I like the albums the links to imovie & mail. After clean installing Yosemite & dragging back iphoto from my CCClone disaster struck. IT went through 10 thousand photos & asked me to identify 3 thousand faces. I can select all but only delete 1 at a time. I have deleted my faces and will never switch it on again. I need help. Macbook Pro mid 09. THANKS. My apologies for not being at the March meeting but I will be in Ricks bar for my birthday - for those older members who remember the film.
If you have a complete back-up of your previous system then the information will be there somewhere. Did you you drag back the entire iPhoto library into the Yosemite machine?
I suggest you follow the procedure for moving an iPhoto library to bring your library back onto the Yosemite machine, then open it as a 'new' library for iPhoto. This is all in th iPhoto help but buried under Optimize iPhoto for your work style->Manage your iPhoto library->Move Your iPhoto Library
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If your photos are held outside of the library, you'll probably do best to recreate the folder structure that they were in and put them back in the same place (as it were) as before upgrading. Do that first, of course.
WOW Thanks. Yes - I have backup's. Yes I did drag the whole iphoto library in to Yosemite. Looking in Finder I seem to have 2 iphoto Libraries 1 under grahamwhent (house) and 1 under devices graham's MacBook this might be normal also in finder I have multiple pictures. Between 2 and 5 of each. Do I have to delete all of these in Finder?
I suggest that you try to restore everything (libraries and photos) as you originally had them. Once they're working again, you can rationalise/delete what you don't want (when you launch iPhoto, you can choose which library to use - maybe you want to stop using one and eventually delete it). However, I don't understand what you mean by "1 under devices graham's MacBook"; normally your iPhoto library(s) would be in the Pictures folder in your own user account (the 'house' icon). Abnormal is not a problem but might indicate some confusion.
Do you have iPhoto set to keep all your photos in its library or just to reference them wherever they may be? This setting is in iPhoto's Preferences somewhere (not sure exactly where - I don't use it myself) and if the photos are NOT in the library, you mustn't move or delete them or you will confuse iPhoto; that's why you need to put them back from whence they came!
What is it that you have "Between 2 and 5 of each" of - if it's duplicate photos, I suggest you start restoration again from a clean sheet. If you're confident of your back-up, just delete them all (using Finder) and then bring them back once from your back-up in the same folder structure as they were before the upgrade (it's probably worth doing this with the libraries too). [If you're not confident about your back-up, make a further copy somewhere else in a folder called 'my paranoid security copy' or some such before you start deleting stuff.
The key is pulling everything back as it was (there are file names, including the full path up to the HD name, embedded in difficult to find places and you don't want to mess with them by hand). Once it's working you can follow Apple's procedure for moving it to somewhere you really want it.
Graham Whent 