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Q: Can I delete my iPhoto Library?
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Jul 17, 2015 4:19 PMby Niel,Put it onto an external drive; you'll need it if you find that you need to use iPhoto again. In addition, the iPhoto and Photos libraries contain hard links to the same media files, so deleting either library won't free up nearly as much space as it looks like it will.
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Jul 17, 2015 4:22 PMby Kappy,You can, but I suggest you hang onto it for a while until Photos has become a little more mature. See: Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support. You can always save it to an external drive if you need extra space on your internal drive.
