They have there has an expired certificate which results in an error and not being able Then do not bother with reinstalling from Apples Recovery Servers, the copy If your mac is working at the moment and you still want to install Mac OS X El Capitan All I wanted to do is just retrieving my old photos. Is there anyway I could access my old Photos app? Any solution would be appreciated. But some solutions suggest it'll be hard to do and would require me to basically downgrade the whole OS to do it. I also tried finding out if I could somehow downgrade Photos version 3.0 to 1.0.1 to adjust it with my old Photos app. But my Contents folder has no 'Masters' folder.

In the end, I couldn't open the Photos app from the backup.Īnother solution I tried doing is, retrieving the image files through accessing 'Show Package Content' > 'Masters' as suggested in some forums. But, apparently the Photos app kept in the Time Machine is in version 1.0.1. So, I tried opening Photos from Time Machine.

'Can't open the application “Photos” because it is in a Time Machine backup.' Hi, I recently tried to open Photos app from my External HD to recover some old photos kept there. Product name: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) Can't open the application “Photos” because it is in a Time Machine backup.

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