Q: Merging/Deleting iPhoto & Photos Libraries
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Jun 21, 2015 2:37 PMby LarryHN,now I have the 2 "soft linked" libraries for each app.
I assume you mean hard linked - Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support
And do you mean that you migrated two different iphoto libraries to Photos?
In any case as noted in the article I linked to
After you migrate your iPhoto or Aperture library to Photos, you might feel tempted to delete your original iPhoto or Aperture library. Because the migrated library takes little additional space, you don't need to delete the original library.
You certainly can delete them if you wish but Apple's (and the experienced users here) advice is not to for a while just in case you need them for any reason
As to your specific question yes you can just delete them and it will not affect Photos in any way (or reduce storage requirements much either)
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Also, since upgrading to Photos, I've put all my originals up in the cloud. Would it be easier to delete both iPhoto/Photos libraries, reset my prefs and such for Photos, and then re-download everything from the cloud?
Why? - that is just asking for the computer gods to crap on you and dump all your photos - Yes it will work unless something goes wrong - but things do go wrong and I would not risk my photos that way
LN
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Jun 21, 2015 3:01 PMby cdspam33,Thanks for the reply, LarryHN. My thoughts...
LarryHN wrote:
I assume you mean hard linked - Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support
You assume correct...that was a typo on my part.
LarryHN wrote:
And do you mean that you migrated two different iphoto libraries to Photos?
In any case as noted in the article I linked to
After you migrate your iPhoto or Aperture library to Photos, you might feel tempted to delete your original iPhoto or Aperture library. Because the migrated library takes little additional space, you don't need to delete the original library.
You certainly can delete them if you wish but Apple's (and the experienced users here) advice is not to for a while just in case you need them for any reason
No, I did not merge two iPhoto libraries. All I have currently is 1 iPhoto Library and 1 Photos library. I did the upgrade back when Photos was initially released, so I've parsed my collection multiple times and backed it up for safety. Just wondering if it is safe to delete the old iPhoto library at this point.
LarryHN wrote:
and as to
Also, since upgrading to Photos, I've put all my originals up in the cloud. Would it be easier to delete both iPhoto/Photos libraries, reset my prefs and such for Photos, and then re-download everything from the cloud?
Why? - that is just asking for the computer gods to crap on you and dump all your photos - Yes it will work unless something goes wrong - but things do go wrong and I would not risk my photos that way
LN
I'm thinking ahead to the next time I do a clean OS install on my MacBook and when I purchase a Mac Mini in the future. It would seem that on a new system, the easiest way to start "fresh" with a clean library would be to let the system sync with what's up on the cloud. I did this precise thing with my iTunes library and iTunes Match and it worked great.
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Jun 21, 2015 3:34 PMby LarryHN,Just wondering if it is safe to delete the old iPhoto library at this point.
Again
You certainly can delete them if you wish but Apple's (and the experienced users here) advice is not to for a while just in case you need them for any reason
As to your specific question yes you can just delete them and it will not affect Photos in any way (or reduce storage requirements much either)
and as to
I did this precise thing with my iTunes library and iTunes Match and it worked great.
Yes - unless something goes wrong - I am fighting an iTunes Match download problem right now on my new MBA
It probably will work 99.999% of the time with out a hitch but again IMHO
that is just asking for the computer gods to crap on you and dump all your photos - Yes it will work unless something goes wrong - but things do go wrong and I would not risk my photos that way
LN
