Xserve (Early 2009) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or laterħ. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or laterĦ. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 2,1 or laterĥ. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or laterĤ.

MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) -ģ.

iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 7,1 or laterĢ. Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lionġ. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless. The file is quite large, over 5 GBs, so allow some time to download. Purchase and download Mountain Lion or Mavericks (Free) from the App Store. To upgrade to Mountain Lion or Mavericks you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. If you sign into the App Store and try to purchase Mountain Lion but the App Store says your computer is not compatible then you may still be able to upgrade to Lion per the following information.Ī.

Mountain Lion can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $19.99. You can upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Theoretically, you could also go online from your Mac and get access to your photos through the website… but since the latest versions of Safari, Chrome and Firefox don’t support MacOSX 10.6.8 any longer (Opera does for now, but that’s about to change also), this route is not a future-proof solution.Upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion or Mountain Lion I was hoping to use iCloud for this, but my MacBook is rather old and can’t run any version of OSX newer than MacOSX 10.6.8 “Snow Leopard” which doesn’t have iCloud installed, just it’s predecessor MobileMe… I just got a new iPhone 7, and now I want to transfer my photos from my previous iPhone 6 onto my MacBook.

UPDATE : the procedure outlined in this post still works for new iPhones with iOS11 and iOS12 (like the iPhone 7, 8, X, XS and XR) even though it was originally written for new iPhones running iOS10 (like the iPhone 6 and 6s)

Photos app for mac osx 10.6.8