

How did they accomplish this? In two ways: (1) by making sure that iPhoto before 9.6.1 was not going to launch under the newest Mac OSes and (2) by removing version 9.6.1, the last update, from the App Store so that it could not be downloaded. Apple had apparently adopted a rather arrogant policy in which they were compelling iPhoto users to make the transition to Photos and to the iCloud by locking iPhoto users out of using the latest iteration of iPhoto anymore. If you can’t find the right folder, open Apple Photos app, go to ‘settings’, ‘general’, and under ‘Library Location’ it should show where your photos are stored.When Apple executives released the new application called Photos in the spring of 2015, they left open a very short window in which iPhoto fans could download and install version 9.6.1 of iPhoto, which is the end of the line for that application. The photo’s are arranged in folders under the years and months they were taken. You can then open the photos one by one, copy them, or do what you like with each picture. Click on a year, then a month, and you will see all the pictures from your iPhoto library from that month. Now you will see a new folder with a lot of years. Find the one called ‘Originals’ and click on it. Instead, if you hold down the control key while you click, you will see an option called ‘Show Package Contents.’ Click on this.

Don’t do this, but if you were to click it then it would try to open in iPhoto, or Photos. If you have used iPhoto, then in the ‘Pictures’ folder there will be a file called ‘iPhoto Library’. If you go to your home directory, there is a folder called ‘Pictures’ where Apple stores all your photos. Here’s how to access an individual photo from an old iPhoto library.

When I tried to open the iPhoto library with the newer Photos App, it wanted to upgrade the entire iPhoto library. Recently I was trying to access some photo’s from my Mum’s iPhoto library on her time machine backup, but my computer doesn’t have iPhoto, it has Photos App.
