I have seen various posts explaining how to download iPhoto from the Apple Store if you have it in your purchased list, but all I have in my purchased list is Lion and El Capitan. I know that iPhoto 9.6.1 will run on El Capitan, but iPhoto no longer appears in the Apple Store. I need to get iPhoto running so that I can move my iPhoto library to my external drive. Most of the storage space on my iMac is taken up by photos, so with that and applications, I’m hard-pressed to find 19gb more space. I thought it would be better to upgrade first and then move the library, which turns out to have been a bad decision. I have an external drive I was planning to move my photo library to after the upgrade. Meanwhile, iPhoto has a no entry sign over the icon and won’t run. However, when I clicked on the Photos icon, the migration of my iPhoto library failed with a message saying I needed an additional 19gb of space. The upgrade itself ran without any problems. The minimum recommended free space was 8gb and I had about 15gb, so I thought I’d be fine.

Can anybody please offer me some advice on this? I upgraded my iMac from Lion to El Capitan.

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