Thanks Ronni, I expected it was something clever like that but was loath to wield the axe. The Apple article explains it all. I see no need to preserve the iPhoto configuration. Hope you have enjoyed the same sort of day as we have,sunny and 20+C at home but signs of approaching damp in this late afternoon. Severin
> On 18 Jul 2015, at 4:06 pm, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Severin, > > Yes, you can delete the iPhoto Library - though you don't need to. You won't > gain any storage space. > > Through the magic of symbolic links (older users might also know these as > aliases), your masters have all been moved to the Photos library, but your > iPhoto and Aperture libraries still work because each photo has a symbolic > link to the Photos master. Though it may appear in the Finder that both > libraries are taking up the same storage capacity, only one library — your > Photos library — has the majority of the data. > > Apple has a support article written about this under-the-hood magic > <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204476> if you want more information, but > the short answer is: If you don't want to use iPhoto or Aperture anymore, > feel free to delete your original library. > > If you still might want to pop back into iPhoto or Aperture, keep that > library. It won't actually take up extra disk space. > > Cheers, > > Ronni > > On 18 Jul 2015, at 3:29 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au > <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>> wrote: > >> Before Photos I used iPhoto and had my photos sorted into a number of >> separate libraries and handled with iPhoto Library Manager. After all the >> dust has now settled I have the same collection of libraries but duplicated, >> one for iPhoto and a newer one for Photos. Both these show the same size >> but my understanding is that the Photos ones are aliased to the older ones. >> I would like to do a cleanup and remove all the older iPhoto libraries >> which no longer have any relevance. How do I do this? >> Severin Crisp >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys >> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia >> ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) >> mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au >> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au> >> ____________________________________________________ > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> ____________________________________________________ Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au ____________________________________________________
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