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Photos - iPhone won't sync now because it can't find the library

Since doing the OS and iOS updates today, letting Photos take over my iPhoto duties, and connecting my iPhone 6+ to my MacBook Air to sync, I'm getting the following error message:

"iTunes cannot sync photos to the iPhone “iPhone” because your iPhoto Library could not be found. Open iPhoto to create or update your iPhoto Library."

Anyone know what to do?
 

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create an album and drag the folder into the album. under the "photos" tab they will be meshed in the timeline but you can still have projects and albums.
Is there still a difference between albums and projects? I thought it only had albums and folders containing albums.
 
I'm in the same boat. I've been holding off installing Yosemite on my trashcan MacPro 'till the bugs were ironed out. The comments have left me on the fence too...

Haha we're in this together. I have multiple backups, so it isn't that "big" of a deal, but I don't want to waste my time either.

Which one are you leaning towards?
 
The new Preview won't open 7360 x 4912 jpgs. The image flashes briefly and is then replaced by a blank screen. If I ask for a thumbnail, I get that -- but only that.

Somewhat smaller images (for example, 7022 x 4661) will open and display properly.

But it will open and display 7360 x 4912 NEF files. This is hard to understand.

For me and my D810, this is very bad news.

Before 10.10.3 this was not an issue.

Anybody?

I just updated to 10.10.3 and I just opened a 7360x4912 300dpi jpg in preview without an issue. I also had no issue opening a larger 13950x10200 300dpi jpg. Maybe try repairing permissions with Disk Utility.

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I just updated my 2011 iMac with 10.10.3 and the update went very smoothly. Everything seems to be working great that I can tell so far. I used the 10.10.3 combo update.

Curious that after the update in my dock iPhoto app was replaced by the new photo app. Not ready to switch over yet. Put iPhoto back into my dock.
 
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:eek: Nobody will stick with iPhoto. Its unusable once you have more than twelve photos in your library.

I have over 2600 photos in my photo library and have not had an issue with iPhoto ever handling that amount of photos. I have not tried the new photos app yet.
 
Haha we're in this together. I have multiple backups, so it isn't that "big" of a deal, but I don't want to waste my time either.

Which one are you leaning towards?

I have a TimeMachine backup and a cloned image of my drive so can roll back if needs be but yeah, waste of time if I get any issues.

I'm leaning toward giving it a go, might look in to the trial partition but once again, don't want to waste too much time. Ideally I'd install and move on...

No-one seems to be recommending a clean install vs an update from 10.9.5 so unsure of that too.
 
Weird problem updating 10.10.2

I can't get the 10.10.3 update to work on my 2011 MacBook Air using the App Store update mechanism or the manually downloaded updater. In the App Store, clicking Update causes a progress bar to appear briefly, then disappear. The manual updater runs and restarts the Mac, but it boots into 10.10.2 without installing. I tried re-installing 10.10.2 as well as repairing permissions and resetting NVRAM, with no change.

Any suggestions?
 
Trim enabler and this update

Anyone have trouble with this update and have trim enabler activated? Does the update restore kext protection?
 
I have a TimeMachine backup and a cloned image of my drive so can roll back if needs be but yeah, waste of time if I get any issues.

I'm leaning toward giving it a go, might look in to the trial partition but once again, don't want to waste too much time. Ideally I'd install and move on...

No-one seems to be recommending a clean install vs an update from 10.9.5 so unsure of that too.

I'm leaning towards it too.. I would try an upgrade first. If it works flawlessly, then I am set. If there's issues, then I can contemplate rolling back or clean install.
 
I am going to miss the iPhoto app. Too bad my album names from iPhoto did not import into Photos. And the trying to push iCloud Drive is less than awesome.
 
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the photos apps supposed to entirely replace iPhoto? Why is iPhoto still visible on my computer?
 
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Someone correcte me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the photos apps supposed to entirely replace iPhoto? Why is iPhoto still visible on my computer?

Delete it if you are interested in using it any longer. I am glad that iPhoto did not get deleted yet as I am still using iPhoto.
 
Alright so are everyone's Wi-Fi problems fixed now??? Can the world finally sleep for once?

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Anyone have trouble with this update and have trim enabler activated? Does the update restore kext protection?

Trim is enabled successfully for me. It disables automatically after updates, so you have to manually re-enable it. As for kexts, no idea.
 
Worst release so far

Installed and rebooted. Was using safari and it completely froze my system. Had to hard reboot and it hung at 50% on load screen. Hard reboot again and as soon as it start to load up (boot screen) it autoMAGICLY shuts down the computer. Windows partition boots up just fine... go figure. Apple, after 8 years your starting to lose your luster and "just works". Software troubles occurring more than ever for me.
 
Installed and rebooted. Was using safari and it completely froze my system. Had to hard reboot and it hung at 50% on load screen. Hard reboot again and as soon as it start to load up (boot screen) it autoMAGICLY shuts down the computer. Windows partition boots up just fine... go figure. Apple, after 8 years your starting to lose your luster and "just works". Software troubles occurring more than ever for me.

See now this is why I'm hesitating... just sounds like upgrading is a risk...
 
Well just updated and it killed iPhoto. I opened the photos app, it automatically imported my iPhoto library, and everything seems to be in the photos app now, but I can no longer open iPhoto, I get this error. It worked before the update. I mean Photos seems nice, but I would like the option to use iPhoto for a while until I'm sure I like Photos.
 

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See now this is why I'm hesitating... just sounds like upgrading is a risk...

Someone posted that after they updated their 2011 iMac with 10.10.3 they could not boot. I updated my 2011 iMac with 10.10.3, absolutely no issues after the update. Update on my 2009 MacBook Pro also went great. Not sure why some updates are bad.
 
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Updated to 10.10.3 and Photos is not appearing anywhere (Dashboard, dock, Spotlight, App Store - can't find it). I didn't have iPhoto installed on 10.10.2 - maybe that's why? Any ideas?
 
I just added a new album to iPhoto and does not automatically sync with Photos. After the initial import it appears that you have to add pictures to both Photos and iPhoto separately...is that correct?...any work around?

Yes, you have to add to both individually. This is intentional.

Based on Apple's advertising Photos is meant to take the place of iPhoto not run alongside it simultaneously.
 
See now this is why I'm hesitating... just sounds like upgrading is a risk...

Yeah, I wouldn't if I was you. Tried doing a disk repair and it's waving it's hands in the air panicking saying to backup everything I can while I can. The SSD is just fine... it's the crap software.

EDIT: I'm on a Mid 2012 13" MPB
 
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