Import from iPhoto albums

Jens Benecke jens-digikam at spamfreemail.de
Sat Oct 18 22:10:20 BST 2025


Hello,

Not exactly. I said it's no longer _maintained_ (i.e. won't receive 
further features) because iPhoto has been obsolete for years and the 
database format for Photos is different. You can still try it out if you 
have a legacy iPhoto database.

Or you can try osxphotos.
It's basically your choice. 🙂


Am 15.10.25 um 17:32 schrieb Bill Allen:
> But, you explicitly say it's no longer supported and recommend: 
> https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos.
>
> On 10/15/25 10:18 AM, Jens Benecke wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> you can try this tool: https://github.com/jensb/iphoto2xmp
>> Disclaimer: I wrote it.  🙂
>>
>> Jens
>>
>>
>> Am 15.10.25 um 11:22 schrieb Thierry Merle:
>>> I have "inherited" a MacBook and CDs with iPhoto albums, with 
>>> apparently metadata in separate database folders (iPhotoMain, 
>>> iPhotoAux, Library.data and Library.iPhoto) I can't read from windows.
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with apple tools.
>>>
>>> Is there a way, on my PC or on the macbook to transfer the photos to 
>>> my digiKam folder without losing the metadata ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
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