I had been wanting to upgrade iPhoto ’09 to iPhoto ’11. But I have been reading few horror stories as how the upgrade would kill iPhoto, make it crippled and inaccessible and most importantly trash photos beyond recovery. I did not jump to upgrade right after iPhoto ’11 was announced.

If you have force quit iPhoto '11 during a library upgrade, you should not attempt to open iPhoto '11 or upgrade the library again without first installing the iPhoto 9.0.1 Update. Important: Attempting an update after a force quit may cause data loss.
- Apple has now restored this functionality in a minor update to iPhoto ’11 (9.1.1). Release notes are as follows: Adds a preference allowing photos to be emailed using an external email application; Adds “Classic” and “Journal” themes to email. Photos attached.
- If you were using iPhoto before updating, you can upgrade it to Photos for Mac. When you install OS X Yosemite v10.10.3 or later, Photos is part of the update. In many cases, if you had a single iPhoto library in your Pictures folder, your entire library — including your photos, videos, projects, albums, and so on — automatically appears in.
- Apple has released an update to iPhoto '11, bringing the current version to 9.1.1 and fixing a number of small bugs in addition to adding some new e-mailing enhancements.
- Iphoto 11 free download - Facebook Exporter for iPhoto, ACID Music Studio 11, iPhoto Library Manager, and many more programs.
Then, there in fact was an update from Apple. I then followed few discussions on that. Sadly there were either new problems or the patch did not work for many. Then I came across one more patch from Apple. So then I thought I would give it a shot.
Backup
My iPhoto ’09 library is little over 13GB. I had spent LOT of time to edit, enhance and organize my library. I didn’t want to loose ‘any of them’. Even before I had planned the upgrade I had been taking snapshots of it, using Time Machine. In addition to that, I chose to ‘export’ photos by ‘Events’.
Under ‘Export Options’, I chose to save them as originals as otherwise, you have to convert them to JPEG, PNG etc. (those are time-consuming too).
These were copied into a local folder and those were backed up by Time Machine as well, before the upgrade.
Aperture
If you were like me, looking for a push to check out Aperture this would be the time. Aperture has a superb option to either ‘Copy’ of ‘Move’ photos from iPhoto ( iPhoto ’09). Before I started the upgrade, I chose to import using Aperture and it did a fantastic job. So essentially I had another (much more powerful) photo management software handling my photos. I didn’t want to delete all my photos and start from the scratch, even though I think that would have been an easy option. Since I had redundant backup’s I thought I would try to upgrade my 13GB library to see what happens.
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Upgrade
Honestly, I find the documentation on the upgrade from Apple, very confusing. If you read the same page (that I pointed earlier), it refers to update 9.0.1, but when you visit the link (pointed), it has the version 9.1.
I was not sure if I had to assume that 9.1 would include 9.0.1.
At least I didn’t find any documentation on that. So I followed the following steps (after taking backups, as listed above)
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Upgrade Iphoto 9 To Iphoto 11
- Install iPhoto ’11 (version number : 9.x), but do not open it (yet)
- Patch up 9.0.1 [ If you try to run the patch with iPhoto ’09 (version number : 8.x), it will throw errors) ]
- Patch up 9.1 [ again, If you try to run the patch with iPhoto ’09 (version number : 8.x), it will throw errors) ]
- Reboot (not required, but thought I’d just have a clean start)
- Do a software update – Ironically, Apple by then had issued their 2nd update for iTunes (with in 24 hours), not related to iPhoto
- Then I started iPhoto ’11
- It prompted that my library has to be upgraded to be used with iPhoto ’11. I went ahead, it took a while (may be because of the size) and it came to life
- Since I had the entire library in Aperture, comparison (to see if any photo or event is missing) was very easy
- I didn’t miss anything – Events, Photos, Faces (I had painstakingly set, Geo Coordinates) were all intact !
And needless to say, iPhoto ’11 is awesome. Thanks to this exercise I finally got around to play with Aperture as well.
As previously reported, several users have lamented a change in functionality under iPhoto ’11, in which the ability to easily email photos as attachments is gone. Previous versions of iPhoto included a simple “Email” function that allowed easy composition of messages in Mail.app with photos as attachments.
Apple has now restored this functionality in a minor update to iPhoto ’11 (9.1.1). Release notes are as follows:
- Adds a preference allowing photos to be emailed using an external email application
- Adds “Classic” and “Journal” themes to email.
- Photos attached to an email can now be sized to Small, Medium or Large
- Improves reliability when upgrading a library from an earlier version of iPhoto
- iPhoto now correctly preserves the sort order of Events after upgrading a library
- Event titles displayed in headers can now be edited in Photos view
- Addresses a problem that could cause duplicate photos to be added to a MobileMe album
- Scrolling overlay now correctly displays ratings when photos are sorted by rating
- Photos are now sorted correctly when a rating is changed and photos are sorted by rating
- Fixes a problem that could cause text formatting controls to become inaccessible when editing a calendar
The new release is available through Software Update or this download link.
Obsessed with tech since the early arrival of A/UX on Apple, Sudz (SK) is responsible for the editorial direction of AppleToolBox. He is based out of Los Angeles, CA.
Sudz specializes in covering all things macOS, having reviewed dozens of OS X and macOS developments over the years.
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