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[Simol]

i want to find out if I have an old version of iPhoto on my MacBook Pro. Having had a lifetime of working with Windows, I'm not quite sure where to look on my Mac and how to delete it?

 

[McBie]

What version of the OS are you using ?
Open iphoto and choose menu item iPhoto/About iPhoto.
That will display the version of the iPhoto app you are currently running.

Cheers ... McBie

 

[Simol]

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I am working with Yosemite. I know that I have 9.6 iPhoto installed on the machine which is the current version. I have a sneaking suspicion that the Mac may be defaulting to the previous version which is why it won't open in which case I want to delete it. 9.6 will not open my iPhoto Library which has 200gb of photos in it!

 

[McBie]

Are there any error messages on the screen or in the log file ?

Cheers ... McBie

 

[Simol]

Your photo library is either in use by another application or has become unreadable

 

[McBie]

If you hold down the CMD & Option keys and launch iPhoto, do you see a screen with 4 ' rebuild ' options or do you have the error message ?
Do you have a backup of the iPhoto Library ?

Before rebuilding the iPhoto library, I suggest making a backup of the current iPhoto library ( even if it is damaged .... potentially )

Have a look here as well .... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6642057

Cheers ... McBie

 

[Simol]

I have rebuilt the library using the commands you suggest. I got 20,000 photographs no longer organised in their 'Events' with individual file titles of large numbers! A complete mess!

 

[McBie]

I'm no iPhoto expert, but do you have a backup of the iPhoto library before it became inaccessible ?

Cheers ... McBie

 

[Simol]

I do. I use Time Machine and backup to a Time Capsule