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Good day,
Perhaps someone in the Creative Media Group can help me here...
I have Photos files created with Photos, version 3 (High Sierra)...
Can Photos, version 5 (Catalina) update these files directly?
Thank you in advance.
-Merlin
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15
I have some good news to report :-)
"Photos 5.0 should be able to open a Photos 3.0 Library directly". I will try this tonight and provide an update to this thread.
UPDATE: from my mid-2010 MBP (yes, mid-2010), I had a few Photos 3.0 as well as iPhoto files. I coped these onto my current MBP (mid-2015), running 10.15.1 and they opened (iPhoto files were successfully migrated) wihout any issues in Photos 5.0.
"Are the Photos 3.0 files on an external volume"? In fact, yes they are. I will copy some to my MBP and see if they will open. I'll provide an update on this as well.
UPDATE: see the update above.
Cheers!
-Merlin
I have some good news to report :-)
"Photos 5.0 should be able to open a Photos 3.0 Library directly". I will try this tonight and provide an update to this thread.
UPDATE: from my mid-2010 MBP (yes, mid-2010), I had a few Photos 3.0 as well as iPhoto files. I coped these onto my current MBP (mid-2015), running 10.15.1 and they opened (iPhoto files were successfully migrated) wihout any issues in Photos 5.0.
"Are the Photos 3.0 files on an external volume"? In fact, yes they are. I will copy some to my MBP and see if they will open. I'll provide an update on this as well.
UPDATE: see the update above.
Cheers!
-Merlin
Photos 5.0 should be able to open a Photos 3.0 Library directly. But you will no longer be able to open the Library in Photos 3.0 on a different Mac after you opened it in Photos 5.0.
Are the Photos 3.0 files on an external volume? Photos 5.0 cannot work with a library, if the external volume has been used by Time Machine. You need to put the files on volume, that is formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled) or APFS and not used for Time Machine backups.
Thank you for replying :-)
"Photos 5.0 should be able to open a Photos 3.0 Library directly". I will try this tonight and provide an update to this thread.
"But you will no longer be able to open the Library in Photos 3.0 on a different Mac after you opened it in Photos 5.0". True, probably holds true for the same Mac as well. This lends itself to the lack of backwards capability, sadly. I noticed this when I was converting iPhoto files to Photos: those files then became "migrated". I don't know if I could open them up (again) in Photos, but I will hold onto them in the case that I lose the updated files.
"Are the Photos 3.0 files on an external volume"? In fact, yes they are. I will copy some to my MBP and see if they will open. I'll provide an update on this as well.
"Photos 5.0 cannot work with a library, if the external volume has been used by Time Machine". That would make sense. I copy these files on their own onto an external HDD. I then drag & drop them onto my MBP as needed.
"You need to put the files on volume, that is formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled) or APFS and not used for Time Machine backups". True! I have my current MBP (mid-2015) under 10.15 which is in APFS format.
Thank you for your feedback! I will provide an update on this thread.
Cheers!
-Merlin
Photos files in version 3 to Photos version 5 possible?
