So I have this drive with an old iPhoto library that is 563.2GB and this Photos library that is 891.7GB. The total disk capacity is only 971.98GB (1TB drive), so these numbers don't seem to add up. It shows only 27.55GB free space on the drive, so I bought a new drive to migrate the libraries.
That took some time to complete, but after the migration, the new drive has both the Photo library and the iPhoto library and my new 2TB drive shows 1.46TB used. I'm wondering if the old drive the iPhoto library is essentially referencing files in the Photos library, but when I copied them to new a drive, they became two separate folders?
Am I safe to delete the iPhoto library from the new drive since it's just redundant?
(Yes, I could techinically just test this out myself, but I'm running out of spare hard drives and there isn't enough free space on my Mac to hold the extra 563.2GB)
That took some time to complete, but after the migration, the new drive has both the Photo library and the iPhoto library and my new 2TB drive shows 1.46TB used. I'm wondering if the old drive the iPhoto library is essentially referencing files in the Photos library, but when I copied them to new a drive, they became two separate folders?
Am I safe to delete the iPhoto library from the new drive since it's just redundant?
(Yes, I could techinically just test this out myself, but I'm running out of spare hard drives and there isn't enough free space on my Mac to hold the extra 563.2GB)