- 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 has been a joke from the initial installation. My events are all totaled since last night's upgrade to 9.1.2. Some event names showing up 10s of times over in iTunes.
- Iphoto 9.0 free download - Facebook Exporter for iPhoto, Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2.0, iPhoto Library Manager, and many more programs.
- Download Iphoto 9.1.1 - real advice. IPhoto and 4 more programs.
Photos can still read and upgrade an iPhoto library, as it doesn’t require launching iPhoto. Photos doesn’t copy the iPhoto images, but it uses a special kind of link that lets the same file.
The update for iPhoto '11 adds new card themes and improves overall stability while addressing a number of other minor issues, including, according to Apple's release notes:
- Addresses an issue that prevented the Zoom slider from being accessible in Magnify (1-Up) view
- Fixes an issue where Toolbars were not auto-hiding in Full Screen view
- Search field now correctly performs an 'includes' search when searching by text string
- Fixes minor formatting issues with book, card and calendar themes
- Message Size of emails now correctly updates when changes are made using the Photo Size menu
- Addresses an issue that prevented some iPhoto 5 libraries from upgrading correctly
- Multiple book pages can now be drag-selected when in All Pages view
- Design tools in print project panels are now accessible via separate Layout and Options buttons
- Photo backgrounds applied to a book are now preserved when book type is changed
- Tab key can now be used to navigate through all text fields in a book project
A second update addresses 'issues displaying and printing certain OpenType fonts and is recommended for all Mac OS X v10.6.7 users.'
- Address an issue in which some OpenType fonts don't display correctly in certain applications
- Resolve issues printing from Preview
- Address an issue with PDF files not opening in third-party PDF viewing applications
- Resolve invalid font errors when printing to PostScript printers
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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.
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.
Iphoto Upgrade For Mac
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 Red devil spreader grass seed settings.
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.
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.
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At least I didn’t find any documentation on that. So I followed the following steps (after taking backups, as listed above)
- 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.