Q: Possible to import Aperture into Photos library on external drive?
I have been an Aperture user. Some photos in the library, mostly referenced.
Now I want to import that library into Photos. 39k photos, and some 150GB of images and videos.
There is no more room on my Macbook Pro.
Is it possible to migrate to Photos such that the new library is on an external drive (which does have 300GB+ free)?
Thanks for your help.
OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), null
Posted on Oct 25, 2015 9:26 AM
yes
but a few thinngs
you do not import libraries ever - that does not work - you migrate them
the Photos program does not handle referenced libraries well so it is strongly recommended that you do not use a referenced library with it
When you migrate a library to Photos it migrates on the same drive so if your Aperture library is on an external drive the Photos library will be too - and I believe that after you migrate a referenced library you can then use the Photos consolidate command to change it to a managed library so you avoid future issues (I have not tested this but it wold work fine)
and the Photos library must be on a drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) connected using a fast wired connection like USB, FireWire or ThunderBolt that is not being used as a TimeMachine backup volume
LN
Posted on Oct 25, 2015 9:37 AM