When I bring an Aperture Library into Photos are the Projects and all of their Albums, etc kept intact?
Also, does the migration reduce available space on my hard drive or is space unaffected if I keep both?
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
This article
https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT204478
has details on what is moved and how it is arranged. Remember Aperture was a pro-level, $80 app. Photos is a freebie aimed at the family snapper.
There is a space hit but it's not double. Both libraries point to the same set of originals on the disk. Mind you, that also means if you delete a photo in one it's not removed from the disk until you remove it from the other too. If you do migrate, best to move the Aperture library off to an external disk. That will break the link between them.
This article
https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT204478
has details on what is moved and how it is arranged. Remember Aperture was a pro-level, $80 app. Photos is a freebie aimed at the family snapper.
There is a space hit but it's not double. Both libraries point to the same set of originals on the disk. Mind you, that also means if you delete a photo in one it's not removed from the disk until you remove it from the other too. If you do migrate, best to move the Aperture library off to an external disk. That will break the link between them.
Thank you, very helpful. Do you know of any advanced manual or training course for Photos?
Thank you, very helpful. Do you know of any advanced manual or training course for Photos?
Photos is a freebie consumer app. There are not "advanced" manuals as it's just not that complicated. Use the Help.
Thank you
The online version of the User Guide is here: Photos User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
I would do the migration of your Aperture Libraries while you are still running Mojave. This way you can compare the migrated library to the original Aperture Library and fix missing metadata, smart albums, etc.
Some more hints here: How to prepare the Photo Libraries before upgrading to Catalina - Apple Community
Aperture 3.6 to Photos 4 or 5
