Q: Iphoto to Photos to Lightroom, Mountain Lion to El Capitan
Hi all,
I am currently running OS 10.8.5 as I just never took the time to upgrade the OS (stupid I know). Now I would like to upgrade the OS to El Capitan which in turn from my understanding is going to make iPhoto outdated and bring Photos into existence on my mac. I would like to start using Lightroom solely for my photo editing but don't even know where to start. I have my time machine backup up to date and just recently copied my iPhoto library to an external hard drive.
One problem is that my HD only has 23 GB left available and my photo library is over 100 GB. Someone at the genius bar told me that Photos would want to copy all of those when I initially make the switch thereby needed to have 200 GB of free space? Is this true? If so, that will be the limiting step that I need to fix first by backing up my photos and then deleting them off my HD.
Basically, I am just overall confused about what I need to do. I consider myself a hobby enthusiast when it comes to taking photos and a complete and total novice/moron when it comes to managing them afterwards. Now they're all just sitting in one big library in iPhotos and I don't really have the first idea what I need to do to clean up the mess I've made.
Thank you so much in advance for any help you can offer,
John
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Posted on Mar 8, 2016 1:12 PM
