Here's how to get iPhoto and Aperture back if they are blocked out in your Application folder after updating to Yosemite 10.10.3. Info is from an article on Photos from Macworld.com.
1) Open the Mac App Store.
2) Click on "Purchases" in the upper menu bar.
3) Find the app. Look at the button on the right side.
a) If the button says "Open", try it to see if it will open the app. If it does, you should be okay.
b) If the button says "Install", if you click it, it should install the Yosemite-compatible version.
c) If the button says "Update" (mine did on both), you can try it. It didn't work for me. If it doesn't work for you, go on here to #4.
4) If "Update" button doesn't work, do the following. It's scary, but it worked for me.
-Close the Mac App Store.
-Go to the Applications folder on your Mac and find the blocked out app (I advise you do one app at a time).
-Highlight the app & send it to the TRASH. (GULP!)
-Empty the TRASH. (GULP! GULP!)
5) Open the Mac App Store and go to Purchases again. The app should now show the "Install" button on the right side. Click it to install the Yosemite-compatible version to your Mac. Takes a while to install.
6) Open the app from your Applications folder on the Mac.
7) When I opened my Aperture app (the one I did first), a dialog window came up asking me if I wanted to rebuild the photo database (plus a couple of other options). I just chose to rebuild the photo database which took a bit of time. This didn't happen when I opened iPhoto.
Let me know if this was helpful to you! Would be interesting to see how many were effected by the blocked out apps.
Regards,
Kaye
1) Open the Mac App Store.
2) Click on "Purchases" in the upper menu bar.
3) Find the app. Look at the button on the right side.
a) If the button says "Open", try it to see if it will open the app. If it does, you should be okay.
b) If the button says "Install", if you click it, it should install the Yosemite-compatible version.
c) If the button says "Update" (mine did on both), you can try it. It didn't work for me. If it doesn't work for you, go on here to #4.
4) If "Update" button doesn't work, do the following. It's scary, but it worked for me.
-Close the Mac App Store.
-Go to the Applications folder on your Mac and find the blocked out app (I advise you do one app at a time).
-Highlight the app & send it to the TRASH. (GULP!)
-Empty the TRASH. (GULP! GULP!)
5) Open the Mac App Store and go to Purchases again. The app should now show the "Install" button on the right side. Click it to install the Yosemite-compatible version to your Mac. Takes a while to install.
6) Open the app from your Applications folder on the Mac.
7) When I opened my Aperture app (the one I did first), a dialog window came up asking me if I wanted to rebuild the photo database (plus a couple of other options). I just chose to rebuild the photo database which took a bit of time. This didn't happen when I opened iPhoto.
Let me know if this was helpful to you! Would be interesting to see how many were effected by the blocked out apps.
Regards,
Kaye
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