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Q: Insufficiënt disk space to migrate library

Dear iLife specialists,

 

I love to use iPhoto to manage my photos, But as a hobby photographer the amount of photos in my library grew to more than 90.000 (most high res) pictures. The library itself is about 455 GB. As my internal HD (640 GB) of my iMac 24" 2009 was running full, I was having more and more crashes of iPhoto.

So as advised i've moved my complete iPhoto library to an external HD of 2 TB. Tested the library succesfull with iPhoto from the external HD and removed the internal library. With the new free space my system was running better and I was finally able to update to El Capitan with the new Photos app.

 

All successful, but now I want to open/migrate my iPhoto library thats on the external HD to Photos. But after 8% It says insufficient space on HD while there is more than 1,5 TB of free space...? See screenshot.

 

Can you help me with a solution to migrate my large iPhoto library to Photos?

Hope to hear from one of you. Thanks in advance!

 

Greetings from Holland

Best regards, Tom

 

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iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on May 22, 2016 2:53 AM

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