Hi Doug

I bought the 2011 iLife, took one look at iPhoto, and sold the disk 
on eBay!  :)

I scraped iPhoto v.9 (the 2011 iLife version) off my HD, and 
reinstalled iPhoto v.8 from iLife 2009 (which I had to buy on eBay 
since I had sold mine when I bought the 2011 one! Life gets teejus, 
don't it?)

iPhoto v.8 is working perfectly on X.6.8. I use it in conjunction 
with iPhoto Library Manager so I can have multiple libraries.

You can't open the v.9 libraries in v.8, but you can rescue all your 
photos by going to the iPhoto library (or in my case, libraries) and 
right clicking, then selecting 'Open Package Contents". You'll find 
all your pix in folders.

The problem is that you lose any comments you've attached to the pix. 
And of course, if you have moved to X.7.x and are planning to follow 
the crazy trail to X.8.x, then maybe v.8 of iPhoto won't keep running.

I would emphatically advise against trying to use Aperture as a 
substitute. It is iPhoto's big brother, allegedly a professional app. 
It is very badly engineered, runs like treacle in a blizzard on 
anything but the most powerful of computers, and as a professional 
app . . . well, an upgrade is overdue and we all know what direction 
Apple is moving in.

Adobe has just announced Lightroom 4 (which Aperture was competing 
with) which has been received with glad cries by the multitude on the 
DPReview forums. The price has been lowered considerably too, 
obviously to compete with Aperture's move to the app store and the 
drastic reduction of its price by about 70 percent.

Cheers, geoff

At 7:57 AM +0000 8/3/12, Doug Browne wrote:
>I am still trying to work out how to use the previous version of iPhoto.
>
>It has duplicated and triplicated many of my photos and named 
>various groups 'Thumbs' and 'Originals'. Sometimes a thumb will 
>open, sometimes it won't. Sometimes and original will open, 
>sometimes it won't.
>
>I intend to scrap this app and arrange my photos manually, but this 
>is a very big task!
>
>Doug
>
>On 8 Mar 2012, at 01:54, Brian Ferguson wrote:
>
>>  Day depends on where you are but, in any case, take the day off 
>>and download the following updates:
>>
>>  iTunes 10.6, iPhoto 9.2.2, Garageband 6.0.5, for Mac.
>>  iBooks, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Find iPhone, for iPad.
>>
>>  May be more but these may just be a followup on latest Apple releases.
>>
>>  ------------------------
>>  Regards from brianF
>>  ===============
>>