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Rowbear

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Apr 14, 2010
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Gatineau, PQ, Canada
Hi all. I'm new to MAC since last december, so be gentle :eek: ;)

I use Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS5 on my iMac with a 1tb hard drive.

My girlfriend is lost in using these programs, so I wanted to set her up using iPhoto in order for her to see the finalized JPG photos (I shoot RAW) , so the other day I imported ( File / Import in the library ) what I taught would be JPG's only, but iPhoto also imported the RAW files.

I now have two libraries: (BTW, Bibliothèque is french for library)

Bibliothèque iPhoto
Bibliothèque iPhoto Recovered Photos

The last one, Photo Recovered Photos is HUMONGUS at 255 gig :eek: and its taking too much space on my 1 TB drive.

Am I right in assuming that by deleting iPhoto Recovered Photos I will only be deleting copies of the pictures, without actually deleting the pictures (RAW and JPG) from their location ?

Thanks in advance :D
 
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dcorban

macrumors 6502a
Oct 29, 2007
914
30
You can right-click (or option-click) on a library to see its contents. Do that and check for yourself what is in the library before deleting.
 
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