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May 6, 2015 7:50 AM in response to rmstntby LarryHN,It is not - it just looks like it is because of double counting -- Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support
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May 6, 2015 7:55 AM in response to LarryHNby rmstnt,I read that, however my backup is now twice as large in actual bytes. Why would that be?
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May 6, 2015 8:25 AM in response to rmstntby LarryHN,Yes - but the backup size is not related to your original question about hard disk space
Backups have no relation to your hard drive
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May 6, 2015 8:38 AM in response to LarryHNby rmstnt,Before using Photos my hard drive had 100GB of data . After installing Photos the drive now shows 200GB of data. I'm asking why would that be?
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May 6, 2015 8:42 AM in response to rmstntby Csound1,Because of the double counting Larry explained in an earlier post, the same set of pictures is counted twice.
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May 6, 2015 8:56 AM in response to Csound1by rmstnt,Sorry if it seems like I'm beating this to death, but if my 1TB drive is filled with 490GB of data. You are saying that if I install and use the new Photos my 1TB drive will be completely full (or 980GB)?
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May 6, 2015 9:02 AM in response to rmstntby Csound1,I have no idea where you pulled that from, it is not what I said, I'm out now.
Good luck.
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May 6, 2015 10:06 AM in response to rmstntby Old Toad,After installing Photos the drive now shows 200GB of data. I'm asking why would that be?
Probably when you upgraded to Yosemite TM sensed a complete change in system and backed up most of the drive again including the Photos library and counted that in it's size. But that's not an issue with TM because as it needs more space it will delete the oldest backup to make room for the newest incremental backup.