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Moving Photos Library to External HDD - Retain iPhoto links?
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<blockquote data-quote="milessthomas" data-source="post: 1841651" data-attributes="member: 27943"><p>When the Photos app came along I accepted the default merge from iPhoto and Photos, which left me with two libraries iPhoto and Photos. At the time it was said that one should keep the iPhoto library as it contained a hardlink to the iPhoto library that was not taking up duplicate space, but actually serving up the image from the iPhoto Library to Photos App as a link.</p><p></p><p>I purchased an OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual that is running in RAID 1, and I copied my Photos Library to that external device. When I open Photos and select that the copy of the Photos Library on my OWC it shows all of my pictures/videos. I now want to delete all photo libraries off of my MacBook Pro's internal SSD, but am unsure whether the hard drive is still making a link to the old iPhoto library.</p><p></p><p>Is it safe to remove both the old iPhoto Library and Photos Library off my MBP's internal SSD, and work from the copy (of Photos Library only) on my OWC or will I be deleting my old iPhoto content?</p><p></p><p>btw - OWC is intended to be the primary location for Photo Library from now forward, which will be backed up in RAID 1. I will also be backing up OWC to another external HDD for triple redundancy.</p><p></p><p>TL;DR: Can I delete my MBP's iPhoto library or is my Photos Library on my external HDD still pointing to it for content links?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milessthomas, post: 1841651, member: 27943"] When the Photos app came along I accepted the default merge from iPhoto and Photos, which left me with two libraries iPhoto and Photos. At the time it was said that one should keep the iPhoto library as it contained a hardlink to the iPhoto library that was not taking up duplicate space, but actually serving up the image from the iPhoto Library to Photos App as a link. I purchased an OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual that is running in RAID 1, and I copied my Photos Library to that external device. When I open Photos and select that the copy of the Photos Library on my OWC it shows all of my pictures/videos. I now want to delete all photo libraries off of my MacBook Pro's internal SSD, but am unsure whether the hard drive is still making a link to the old iPhoto library. Is it safe to remove both the old iPhoto Library and Photos Library off my MBP's internal SSD, and work from the copy (of Photos Library only) on my OWC or will I be deleting my old iPhoto content? btw - OWC is intended to be the primary location for Photo Library from now forward, which will be backed up in RAID 1. I will also be backing up OWC to another external HDD for triple redundancy. TL;DR: Can I delete my MBP's iPhoto library or is my Photos Library on my external HDD still pointing to it for content links? [/QUOTE]
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