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Trying to migrate my Aperture Library to Photos

Hello everyone,


I am trying to migrate my Aperture Library to photos in Big Sur.

I somehow managed to use Aperture again in Big Sur using "retroactive" from GitHub (Link: https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive).

It enabled me to download Aperture from the App Store again via my purchases. And it seems to be working...


Anyway, I am trying to open a Aperture Library (320 GB large) from my external Samsung SSD (1TB capacity with 4,5 GB left) in Aperture. But an error keeps showing up: [Aperture cannot switch to the selected library because the file system of the library’s volume is not supported.] Does anyone know how to fix this?


Another question I have, is about opening an Aperture Library in Photos, when I do this, this error shows up:


There is not enough disk space to migrate your library.

Free up additional space on disk “*******” to migrate your library.


Should I try and copy my Library to another SSD which I have and try and migrate it to Photos from there?


Thanks for your help... Alex

Posted on Jul 28, 2021 1:36 AM

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Posted on Jul 28, 2021 3:19 AM

Aperture needs a lot of free storage on the volume with the library, when you are opening an old library that needs preparing. Move the library to another volume, with the file system format MacOS Extended (Journaled) or APFS, not case sensitive, and make sure, the volume has not been used for Time Machine backups and has a lot of free, additional storage (equal to the size of the library).

Then Photos should be able to migrate the library.


One problem you may encounter are older files in a legacy format. Aperture allowed us to import media like audio files, that Photos cannot handle, also videos or photos in file formats, that are no longer supported by the system in Big Sur. Such items should have been converted to a more compatible format or removed while still running Mojave.

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Jul 28, 2021 3:19 AM in response to AvanDx

Aperture needs a lot of free storage on the volume with the library, when you are opening an old library that needs preparing. Move the library to another volume, with the file system format MacOS Extended (Journaled) or APFS, not case sensitive, and make sure, the volume has not been used for Time Machine backups and has a lot of free, additional storage (equal to the size of the library).

Then Photos should be able to migrate the library.


One problem you may encounter are older files in a legacy format. Aperture allowed us to import media like audio files, that Photos cannot handle, also videos or photos in file formats, that are no longer supported by the system in Big Sur. Such items should have been converted to a more compatible format or removed while still running Mojave.

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