Q: iPhoto migration to Photos
I just upgraded to El Capitan and want to start using Photos -- I have followed procedures to migrate my old iPhoto library to Photos with my Photos library designated to reside on a different internal hard drive. I tried several times but shortly after the migration started I got the message that there was not enough disk space -- 10 gigs needed. The disk I am migrating to had 240 gigs available. I tried reformatting that disk and emptied it of all other files so that its full 250 gigs are available, but the process still stalls out at 8% with the same message -- not enough disk space. Can anybody give me some insight as to what the problem is?
Mac Pro 2.66 Quad Core; 8GB Ram, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
Posted on Sep 5, 2016 2:26 PM
I'm not clear on what exactly you have - I thought you had two internal drives, the boot drive and a second with the iPhoto library on it but apparently I do not understand
I think you have a drive formatted Mac OS extended (Journaled) with about 240 GB available - drag the iPhoto library to that drive and then launch Photos and use the file menu ==> open to open and migrate it to Photos - it should migrate just fine and you will have both libraries on that drive - then you can delete the iPhoto library is you want although because of the hard links deleting it will not save much space - Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support
I think this will resolve your migration issue
LN
Posted on Sep 5, 2016 4:57 PM