As long as you are certain you are happy with Photos, & you are certain the Library has migrated successfully, you can delete the old iPhoto app & iPhoto Library if you wish. The Library, as you mentioned, is 'virtual' as both are hard linked to the same files.
Deleting either Library will not delete the pictures, only deleting both Libraries will do that. A nice sunny day here today 19° after damp morning. Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 18 Jul 2015, at 4:15 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > 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 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> 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 >>> ____________________________________________________ >> >> -- 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 > ____________________________________________________ > > > > -- 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>
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