Deleting these should not really recover substantial disk space, but that was not my experience.
Others in this forum, including the referenced thread above ( Photos and iPhoto), state that old iPhoto libraries and extra Photos libraries simply contain links rather than actual image files.
“Get info” for the iMac HDD now indicates 249 GB used, compared to 560 GB available and 440 GB used before.
Migrating from iphoto to photos mac#
"About This Mac > “Storage” now reports 756 GB available. Pay particular attention to the advice given by and and ignore the advice given by one your (possibly) redundant Photos libraries, I share the previous paranoias expressed by and Delete them if you must, but make sure you have viable - thank you for the replies.Īfter backing up and then deleting the old migrated iPhoto libraries and the redundant Photos libraries, emptying the Trash folder and re-booting, I was pleasantly surprised to see that almost 190 GB of storage was recovered. Question 2: What is the best way to delete the iPhoto app? Simply drag iPhoto.app to the trash bin, or use an app such as Appcleaner to delete the application and its supporting files?Īs far as iPhoto goes, take a look at this thread. When launching the old iPhotos app, the message appears: “Your photos have been migrated to Photos. Question 1: Is it safe to delete the two old iPhoto Library files? Indicated file sizes are 94.72 GB and 623 KB. That may account for the filetype “migratedphotolibrary” indicated for iPhotolibrary 2. Which of these are safe to delete so that no image files are lost? If I recall correctly, the old iPhoto library was migrated to the Photos app years ago. See screenshot of the Pictures folder as displayed in Finder below. The late 2009 iMac runs under macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra, backed up to external drives by Time Machine hourly and Carbon Copy Cloner weekly.Ĭurrently there are 3 Photos libraries and 2 old iPhoto libraries in the Pictures folder.
Migrating from iphoto to photos free#
It would be desirable delete unneeded files so that at least 100 to 150 GB of free space remains on the new SSD after the change-over. "About This Mac > “Storage” reports “560 GB available of 999 GB” on the original HDD. I would like to delete excess files on my wife’s 2009 27" iMac so that the original 1TB HDD can be replaced with a 500 GB SSD.
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