OAADKTBA
Level 1
(11 points)
Q: Two "photos library" after updating to El Capitan
Hi,
I found two file "photos library" in ~/images/, one with the old icon names "iPhoto Library", the other with a new Capitan icon named "Photos Library".
Created and Last Modified date correspond each other.
I guess El Capitan duplicate my library during installation. I am a little bite surprise it did not delete the old one...
Those file are huge : is it safe to delete the old one ?
Thanks
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11)
léonie
Level 10
(108,148 points)
Those file are huge : is it safe to delete the old one ?
The libraries only look large, but they are sharing the storage for the images and are using less storage than the combined size on the disk, see this support document:
Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support
and also: Six Colors: The (hard) link between Photos and iPhoto
If you delete the old iPhoto Library, you will not gain much storage back. It is save to delete the iPhoto Library, but I would wait with burning the bridges. Wait, till you are sure that the migration went well and no photos are missing.
Also, you may need to finish your projects in iPhoto, the projects do not migrate well. How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support
And if you discover, that you do not like Photos and want to revert to iPhoto, you will need your old library.
