Q: I'm totally confused by this article...
Article HT204476 "Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries".
It says Photo doesn't duplicate our photo images, instead it creates a structure which links to the images in the iPhoto library. That sounds like Photo doesn't work independently. But then it goes on to say any edit we do to a photo in iPhoto won't affect the image in Photo. Also says it's unnecessary to delete the iPhoto library after the migration because the new structure takes so little extra space.
If Photo works by creating links to the images already in iPhoto, I would have thought that if we deleted the old iPhoto library, those photos would all be deleted. When I look at Finder/Pictures and see an iPhoto Library icon - isn't that where my photos actually reside?
I haven't done this yet, and I want to understand as much as I can before I do. So far most of it seems pretty clear, but I can't get my head around this article :/
Thanks for any help,
Lynne
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Posted on Jul 12, 2015 3:27 PM
It is not a central file - each photo is in a file - and they can be anyplace (remember files are not really "in a Place" - they are bits on a disk and the directly is the index to finding the file (which may be scatted in different places) - frankly it is not necessary to understand the file system and exactly how it works to use the computer unless you write File System software for a living
You are thinking of a file as physical thing like a book on a shelf - it is not - it is just bits and is only a file because the file system knows where those bits are
LN
Posted on Jul 12, 2015 4:29 PM