Apple iPhoto 9.4.3 – Import, edit, and share your photos. IPhoto ’11 gets a new look with stunning full-screen views for Events, Faces, Places, and Albums that let you take advantage of every inch of your Mac display. IPhoto also offers new ways to share and showcase your photos. Looking for safe Iphoto 9 download links? Learn more about free and legal ways to download the program in 2021. IPhoto is available for free on the web, but not from the Apple product site. It was originally included in every Mac from late 2002 to early 2015, when Apple discontinued it and replaced it with Apple Photos. This update adds several new print product options to iPhoto '11. It also improves overall stability and addresses a number of other minor issues. Provides the ability to create and order calendars in iPhoto. Additional letterpress holiday greeting card themes are now available. Fixes an issue that prevented videos.
Since the release of iLife 11 earlier this month, a number of customers upgrading to iPhoto 11 started reporting data loss. There doesn’t seem to be a large number of affected users, but these occurrences may also not be “extremely rare”, as Apple implies in a note describing the iPhoto 9.0.1 update.
According to the Cupertino, California based maker of Macintosh computers, iPhoto 9.0.1 “addresses issues that, in extremely rare cases, could result in data loss when upgrading a library from an earlier version of iPhoto.”
A Support document containing detailed information about the update is also available.
Knowledge base article HT4431 begins with Apple noting that “Before an existing iPhoto library can be used with iPhoto '11 it must be upgraded.
“This process occurs when you open your library with iPhoto '11 for the first time. In extremely rare cases, if you do not follow the recommendations below during the upgrade process you may experience data loss,” the company acknowledges.
According to Apple, the article outlines the various events that may occur during the library upgrade process. It basically offers advice on how to avoid data loss.
“The library upgrade process is generally safe and reliable, but it's always a good idea to have a backup of your library in case of unforeseen issues,” reads the document.
Before upgrading to iPhoto 11, users must keep in mind that fully upgrading a very large library can take a long time, Apple says, “even up to an hour or more.”
“Before updating to iPhoto ’11, it is recommended that all customers download and install the iPhoto 9.0.1 software update,” the document continues to reveal.
“From the Apple () menu, choose Software Update and check for the iPhoto 9.0.1 Update. You can also manually download the iPhoto 9.0.1 update here. Follow the instructions to install iPhoto 9.0.1 and then reopen iPhoto '11 to complete the update,” goes Apple’s advice.
User must also not force quit the application during the update process, if they attempt to upgrade their library a second (or third) time after the software unexpectedly quits, and the iPhoto 9.0.1 software update is not installed.
“If the software unexpectedly quits, iPhoto may on subsequent launches appear to stop responding during the upgrade process,” Apple claims.
“Customers are advised to let the process continue until the upgrade progress bar is displayed. For very large libraries, iPhoto '11 may appear to be inactive for several minutes before the progress bar is displayed — do not force quit the application during this period.”
A final warning is then posted, for those who’ve force quit iPhoto '11 during a library upgrade:
“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.”
If you’ve continued to use iPhoto after Apple discontinued it in 2015, you had to know its days were numbered. Many people preferred iPhoto’s controls and the new Photos app was initially missing features and buggy, crashy, and slow at times. Photos has improved substantially, though it’s still not everyone’s cup of tea.
Now, iPhoto’s number is finally truly up. The outdated software won’t launch in macOS Catalina, because its core functions rely on a software framework Apple has also sent riding into the sunset.
If you upgraded to Catalina without first launching Photos or finding another solution, what options do you have? Plenty.
Launch Photos in Catalina. 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 exist in two places, avoiding increasing your storage requirements.
Switch to Google Photos. Google offers desktop and mobile apps for importing images and syncs via its cloud service. You can have the desktop software read an iPhoto library to upload your images.
Switch to Adobe Lightroom for photo library managing and maybe for cloud-based sync. Adobe offers two different versions: one is oriented towards images stored on a computer (Lightroom Classic), while the other leans heavily on cloud-based sharing and access for mobile, desktop, and Web (the weirdly named Adobe Photoshop Lightroom). The cloud-oriented version is just $10 a month, which includes 1TB of storage and the use of all the apps across your devices.
Install a virtual machine to keep macOS Mojave or an earlier macOS running for iPhoto and other apps. While it’s not a solution forever, you can use Parallels or VMWare Fusion within Catalina. You can postpone making a change for a little or long while. (You could also revert to Mojave, but that’s a time-limited choice, too, and Mac models released after this point won’t run macOS before Catalina.)
With Google Photos and either Lightroom choice, you won’t be able to preserve metadata added in iPhoto, however. And you might not be able to import modified versions of photos you edited within iPhoto—only the originals. Upgrading to Photos or using a virtual machine preserves both.
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