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Moving Photos Library to External HDD - Retain iPhoto links?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1841673" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>There are two ways to have Photos manage your image files for you. One is to import the actual image file into Photos, after which you can delete the original file because you don't need two copies of it. The other is to leave the image files in place and have Photos just manage the changes and edits to the images in the database. In that case you do NOT want to delete the original files because there is no copy inside Photos database. You choose which option in the Preferences of Photos where you see this:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]31022[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>So the article you referenced didn't address this factor, which makes me wonder what else it forgot to say. </p><p></p><p>In any case, if the items are copied to your library, then you can delete the source, including the iPhoto database, with no issue. If your setup is un-checked so that you are NOT copying images to the library, then they have to stay exactly where they were when you imported them or Photos won't be able to find them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1841673, member: 396914"] There are two ways to have Photos manage your image files for you. One is to import the actual image file into Photos, after which you can delete the original file because you don't need two copies of it. The other is to leave the image files in place and have Photos just manage the changes and edits to the images in the database. In that case you do NOT want to delete the original files because there is no copy inside Photos database. You choose which option in the Preferences of Photos where you see this: [ATTACH=FULL]31022[/ATTACH] So the article you referenced didn't address this factor, which makes me wonder what else it forgot to say. In any case, if the items are copied to your library, then you can delete the source, including the iPhoto database, with no issue. If your setup is un-checked so that you are NOT copying images to the library, then they have to stay exactly where they were when you imported them or Photos won't be able to find them. [/QUOTE]
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