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I currently have a 2012 iMac that when I first purchased it I began using iPhotos as my editing program. When Photos came out I began using that but I think I remember reading that the data was merged between the two but i should still save iPhoto's. I do upgrade to the new OS when it comes out but I do not do a clean install. Last week I was cleaning up my computer and noticed that the iPhoto's library is huge, but smaller than my Photos library, 150GB vs. 230 GB. Do i need to keep the iPhotos at this point or can i delete it and just use Photos?

iMac, macOS Mojave (10.14.1)

Posted on Nov 28, 2018 5:40 PM

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léonie

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Nov 29, 2018 5:07 AM in response to Buddyboy99

If you no longer have used iPhoto for some time, and you have not noticed any missing photos or videos in your Photos Library, I would move the iPhoto Library and the iPhoto.app to an external drive, so you can recover missing or corrupted photos later, if you should come across photos or videos that did not migrate well. For example, I found some some photos in my migrated Photos Library a year later, where the external edits had not been migrated correctly or images in an older image format, that Photos could not open. It was easier to recover the originals from the iPhoto Library than from the photos Library.

removing the iPhoto Library from your system drive may not recover much free storage, because the duplicate image files in both libraries are sharing the storage, but it is not necessary to keep the iPhoto Library on your system drive, if you no longer are using iPhoto at all.

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