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Oct 7, 2016 1:41 PM in response to David Bywaterby léonie,★HelpfulYour Photos Library is larger than the the combined sizes of the original photos in your library, because Photos is keeping previews of the edited versions and thumbnails as well. There are also masks for brushed adjustments, or scanned faces thumbnails.
To see, if you got all originals ctrl-click your Photos Library, use "Show Package Contents", the look at the size of the folder "Masters". Is it roughly the size of the folder with the exported originals?
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Oct 7, 2016 1:41 PM in response to léonieby David Bywater,No (and yes!).
I think you have the answer. So my Photos app on it's own is 82.61gb, the Masters folder you mention is 9.69gb. The exported folder is 59.65gb, but (crucially here perhaps) my Photos library also has referenced photos.
So I'm assuming it's connected the referenced photos and put them all together in one place.
Interesting though how the masters file is just 9.69gb and there's 71gb of edits/data in there.