Why do I have multiple versions of Photos libraries?
I noticed I have the following in ~/Pictures directory - why do i have multiple copies of my Photos/iPhoto libraries? Am I wasting enormous amounts of space? I have around 80K photos when I open Photos app. I just bought a 2TB 15" MacBook Air because I maxed out 1TB on previous laptop - a Mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro so it was time for an upgrade anyways. Hard to tell what are real photos files and what are hard/symbol links to the files.
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kris staff 8196 Mar 14 09:58 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x@ 24 kris staff 768 Mar 14 09:54 Photos Library.photoslibrary
drwxr-xr-x+ 29 kris staff 928 Mar 13 11:29 ..
drwx------+ 9 kris staff 288 Mar 12 21:40 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 0 Mar 12 21:40 .localized
drwxr-xr-x@ 21 kris staff 672 Mar 6 21:23 iPhoto Library.photoslibrary
drwxr-xr-x 2 kris staff 64 Jul 21 2020 FastFoto
drwxr-xr-x 7 kris staff 224 Jun 15 2020 Photo Booth Library
drwxr-xr-x@ 27 kris staff 864 Sep 25 2019 iPhoto Library.migratedphotolibrary
If I go into "Photos" app and ctrl-a to select all photos/videos and then hit the little info button, it says all my photos/videos are ~485GB so not sure why my 1TB disk on my old laptop was full?
MacBook Air (M3, 2024)