Q: Not enough disk space to convert iPhoto library to photo
My wife's iPhoto library has about 9,500 photos. She has a MacBook Air, which has limited hard drive space, so we put her iPhoto library on a SD card (which is always in its SD slot). We've decided to convert the iPhone library to Photos. When the process is started, it gets to about 4% on the progress bar when a popup says that there is not enough disk space to complete the task (says that 72GB is required). How can I complete this process? She wants to do it so that her iPhone and iPad Air can all share the all of the photos via iCloud. Do I put the Photos library on the SD card also? Once the Photos library syncs with iCloud, don't all of the large digital images disappear from the MacBook Air and only a thumbnail remain (like on the iPhone and iPad)?
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), MacBook Pro/IPadAir/iPhone 6
Posted on Apr 11, 2016 9:00 PM
You do not drag the iPhoto LIbrary into the open Photos Window - that would import the library, but you drag the library onto the Photos application icon in the Dock. That will open the library in Photos.
Alternately, select the iPhoto Library in a Finder window and ctrl-click it or right click it. Then select "Open with PHotos" from the window that will pop up.
Posted on Apr 14, 2016 6:20 AM





