Q: Too many photos, full SSD
I can't seem to find the right solution here and I'm hoping that some of you here can help out.
My wife has a 512GB SSD and is full (2.5GB free). She has about 270GB of photos, most are in Photos (iPhoto library import). I need to move most of this to a separate external drive that she can get easy access to. She probably has mant duplicates, but I'll deal with that later.
What should I do?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), 27 inch; Base Model, 2.7GHz i5
Posted on Jul 29, 2016 7:27 PM
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verify that is it a good copy and then delete photos from the internal drive so that the EHD has has everything as of now and the internal drive has a subset of photos on it - you can use PowerPhotos in the future to move libraries between the libraries
You can delete some or all photos form the internal drive
as to magic - yes called hard links - Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support - until you break the hard links by moving the libraries both libraries had link to the same originals and previews saving a lot of space - when you move teh libraries these hard links are broken and each library now has its own copy of each photo
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Posted on Jul 30, 2016 9:34 AM