Iphoto and Photos lIbrary

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Iphoto and Photos lIbrary

I am manually deleting duplicates in my Photos Library ( currently 74GB) but I noticed I have 120GB in my iPhoto Library - can I just delete it? Will that affect my Photos in any way?

iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 11.6

Posted on Jul 5, 2022 12:07 PM

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Keith Barkley

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Jul 5, 2022 1:38 PM in response to Booberoi

As long as you have migrated it over to Photos, you can safely delete it. However, you might not get back as much space as you think since the iPhoto Library shares the space for the originals with the Photos Library using some OS magic called hard links.

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Booberoi Author

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Jul 6, 2022 11:11 AM in response to Keith Barkley

I tried to trash the iphoto folder and ran into all sorts of trouble. I could not start photos so I had put back Iphoto folder and start photos by control click into photos to get it back.

Decided not worth to check for double pics in photo library or worry about reclaiming space by deleting iphoto - everything runs well and my pics are too valuable to play around with

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Booberoi Author

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Jul 5, 2022 1:52 PM in response to Keith Barkley

I cannot understand why its using 120GB of my HD space

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Jul 5, 2022 7:27 PM in response to Booberoi

Because it has 120 GB worth of files. Feel free to delete it.

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Booberoi Author

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Jul 5, 2022 7:53 PM in response to Keith Barkley

Don’t you think 120 GB is a lot of space to add to HD?

if I double click the iPhoto library in finder to see what’s there - can I get back to photos and my albums?

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Jul 6, 2022 5:42 AM in response to Booberoi

Not albums, but you can get to the originals by control-clicking and open the package. But if you migrated your library to Photos, all that information should have transferred over.

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