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Moving Photos Library to External HDD - Retain iPhoto links?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1841652" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Never heard of that. I seriously doubt it is true, as I also accepted the conversion from iPhotos to Photos and once I knew the images were all in Photos, did away with the iPhoto database to recover the space. I don't know who "said" do do what you read, but I really don't think it necessary. Easy to test, though. Just move the iPhoto database somewhere without telling iPhoto or Photos and then see if Photos still works. I'm betting it will.</p><p></p><p> As I said, it probably isn't but it's easy to test by moving the library file and not telling the software.</p><p></p><p>I think you can. Test if you want to be sure, but I'm 99.9% certain you can move the library, point to it in Photos Preferences and then erase both it and the iPhotos app and database from the internal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1841652, member: 396914"] Never heard of that. I seriously doubt it is true, as I also accepted the conversion from iPhotos to Photos and once I knew the images were all in Photos, did away with the iPhoto database to recover the space. I don't know who "said" do do what you read, but I really don't think it necessary. Easy to test, though. Just move the iPhoto database somewhere without telling iPhoto or Photos and then see if Photos still works. I'm betting it will. As I said, it probably isn't but it's easy to test by moving the library file and not telling the software. I think you can. Test if you want to be sure, but I'm 99.9% certain you can move the library, point to it in Photos Preferences and then erase both it and the iPhotos app and database from the internal. [/QUOTE]
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