Turns out that Photos does pretty sophisticated library management; enough so that you're not duplicating space if you're migrating from iPhoto or Aperture. If you've migrated an existing iPhoto or Aperture photo library to Photos, Photos creates a brand new library structure but doesn't, in point of fact, duplicate your images. Instead it creates links to the original and preview versions of your images.
When you're looking at your Photos library in the Finder, it includes all of your original images and previews. But the images exist only in one location on your hard drive, even if you have multiple photo libraries.
Jun 20, 2019 To delete duplicate photos in iPhoto, the best way is to use software like Cisdem Duplicate Finder for Mac. Cisdem Duplicate Finder can efficiently find and delete: Duplicate iPhoto photos.
Dec 18, 2018 Well, it does not matter a lot. You can follow steps below to delete iPhoto library after moving to Photos safely. Step 1: Quit iPhoto and Photos app before the process. Step 2: Head to 'Finder' and click 'Pictures' in its left panel. Step 3: Choose 'iPhoto Library.library' file. How to delete iPhoto library on your Mac. Click on the iPhoto Library listing, and without letting go of your mouse or trackpad button, drag it until it’s over top the Trash icon on your. You can select (click on) the iPhoto Library, then right-click on your mouse or Trackpad (Apple will call. Feb 10, 2017 So, what I wanted to find out is whether I can safely delete the old 'iPhoto Library'? The reason I'm asking is because my Mac is running low on disk space and by deleting the iPhoto library I can free up 64GB of space on my hard drive seeing as it's an unused duplicate? Feb 21, 2020 Mostly, according to Apple's support community, when you delete the iPhoto Library from Mac, the chance to restore photos from the Trash is very small. Here are two methods that you can follow and restore deleted iPhoto Library with photos on Mac.
Here's what Apple has to say for people anxious to pull the delete trigger:
After you migrate your iPhoto or Aperture library to Photos, you might feel tempted to delete your original iPhoto or Aperture library. Because the migrated library takes little additional space, you don't need to delete the original library.
So don't do it, even if you're tempted to.
You can still use your original photo library with iPhoto (version 9.6.1, as of this writing) and Aperture (version 3.6) after you've migrated it to Photos. Just bear in mind that any changes you make in iPhoto or Aperture will be resident only in those applications, not Photos. So if you make new image edits in Aperture or create a new iPhoto album, those will only appear in their respective apps, not Photos.
(Hat tip: Dave Sanderson)
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