Mac Migrated Photo Library
Turns out that Photos does pretty sophisticated library management; enough so that you're not duplicating space if you're migrating from iPhoto or Aperture. If you've migrated an existing iPhoto or Aperture photo library to Photos, Photos creates a brand new library structure but doesn't, in point of fact, duplicate your images. Instead it creates links to the original and preview versions of your images.
Aug 27, 2016 This lead to a cycle of deleting the “Photo” library and trying to double-click the iPhoto library over and over. Now “Photos” complained that the it can’t find the Systems Photo Library. Which means you have to make a new Library that’s empty, which leads back to the iPhoto Library already being migrated.
Aug 24, 2015 If you've migrated your photo library to the new Photos app for Mac, deleting your old iPhoto library can help you free up gigs of space. If you've migrated your photo library to the new Photos app for Mac, deleting your old iPhoto library can help you free up gigs of space. Apr 20, 2018 Looking for a detailed guide that can help you migrate from Mac to Windows 10? This guide will show you all the steps. The Complete Guide to Migrating from macOS to Windows 10. How to cope with a Photos library too big to fit on an internal Mac drive. At a time can be designated the System Photo Library, and only the System Photo Library can sync with iCloud Photos. To migrate iPhoto Library to iCloud Drive, find the location of your iPhoto Library (Picture folder) and move it to the iCloud Drive folder in Finder. You can also drag and drop photos from iPhoto Library to iCloud Drive which is located in Finder. Jul 12, 2017 How to Move Your Apple Photos Library to Another Location. Matt Klein @howtogeek Updated July 12, 2017. We see our Photo Library is in our Dropbox, but yours will almost likely show up in your user folder. A quick check on our photos reveals that indeed that they’re synced and now show up in our Photos library on our Mac, just like.
When you're looking at your Photos library in the Finder, it includes all of your original images and previews. But the images exist only in one location on your hard drive, even if you have multiple photo libraries.
Here's what Apple has to say for people anxious to pull the delete trigger:
After you migrate your iPhoto or Aperture library to Photos, you might feel tempted to delete your original iPhoto or Aperture library. Because the migrated library takes little additional space, you don't need to delete the original library.
So don't do it, even if you're tempted to.
You can still use your original photo library with iPhoto (version 9.6.1, as of this writing) and Aperture (version 3.6) after you've migrated it to Photos. Just bear in mind that any changes you make in iPhoto or Aperture will be resident only in those applications, not Photos. So if you make new image edits in Aperture or create a new iPhoto album, those will only appear in their respective apps, not Photos.
(Hat tip: Dave Sanderson)
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Mac Photo Library Management
Wwhen you switched from iPhoto to Photos app, the old iPhoto Library was 'migrated' to the new Photos Library and the old was was renamed by upending .migrated to its name.
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If all your images and videos migrated successfully to Photos, you can delete this iPhoto Library. Be aware, however, that you will regain very little space. That's because both libraries reference tohe same files on your drive.
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To find our what takes up the most space, look into About This Mac in the Apple menu.
Mac Migrated Photo Library
May 30, 2017 4:53 PM