Migrating from Aperture to Photos

Since Aperture will no longer work when macOS Catalina is released, I just migrated about 500GB of images in Aperture to Photos. I don't plan to use Aperture as I have replaced it with Capture One 12. After completion of the migration is it safe to delete the file Aperture Vault.apvault? How about the file Aperture Library.migratedaplibrary? The migration created a new file Photos Library.photoslibrary. I appreciate the guidance as the two Aperture files are eating up about 1 TB of storage.

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Ed

Posted on Jun 6, 2019 12:36 PM

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Posted on Jun 6, 2019 12:49 PM

You can delete the Aperture Vault.apvault, if you now are using a different backup for your Photos.

The file Aperture Library.migratedaplibrary is your current Aperture Library, just with a changed filename extension. If you change the extension back to Aperture Library.aplibrary, you can open it again in Aperture.

The Aperture library should have roughly the same size as the new Photos Library, but the two libraries are stored efficiently. All original image files are stored as hard links, so the storage is only used once. The identical files in both libraries are using the same disk blocks. You will not gain much storage, if you delete the Aperture Library. I would keep it around, until you have convinced yourself, that all photos are included and and you no longer need to look up metadata, that did not migrate well, like hierarchical keywords, descriptions of albums, faces names, location names. Then you can delete the file Aperture Library.migratedaplibrary.



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Jun 6, 2019 12:49 PM in response to Mtn Ed

You can delete the Aperture Vault.apvault, if you now are using a different backup for your Photos.

The file Aperture Library.migratedaplibrary is your current Aperture Library, just with a changed filename extension. If you change the extension back to Aperture Library.aplibrary, you can open it again in Aperture.

The Aperture library should have roughly the same size as the new Photos Library, but the two libraries are stored efficiently. All original image files are stored as hard links, so the storage is only used once. The identical files in both libraries are using the same disk blocks. You will not gain much storage, if you delete the Aperture Library. I would keep it around, until you have convinced yourself, that all photos are included and and you no longer need to look up metadata, that did not migrate well, like hierarchical keywords, descriptions of albums, faces names, location names. Then you can delete the file Aperture Library.migratedaplibrary.



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