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iPhoto / Photos question

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drewaz

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I have always liked iPhoto better than Photos for a repository for a large number of digital images although I have all of them in both programs. I edit in PS.

I need to create some space on my hard drive and I'm wondering if I delete Photos but keep iPhoto will I clean out some space or are the images just tagged for each program and not actually duplicated?
 
kinda tricky, you could experiment by backing all the important photos with titles and setting by bulk exporting the pictures from photos onto another source, then delete photos app.
but i way until joe schmoe posts their experience in dealing with 2 photo apps here.
 
Expobill said:
kinda tricky, you could experiment by backing all the important photos with titles and setting by bulk exporting the pictures from photos onto another source, then delete photos app.
but i way until joe schmoe posts their experience in dealing with 2 photo apps here.
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thanks ... the photos are in both Photos and iPhoto ... I'm trying to figure out whether deleting Photos would give me some hard drive space and preserve iPhoto. The images are backed up to an external hard drive and to the cloud.
 
go for it! i think i deleted iPhotos from mountain lion when i upgraded when i had 2 of them.
photos app never was fluent, but getting better.
 
You can delete the programs, but won't free up any significant space. And since it sounds as you have used both for photo editing, might not be able to use iPhoto for photos in Photo "format". When Photos gets installed and started, in essence, a whole new library gets made and old iPhoto pictures stay in place and get a reference to them in Photos. A whole new, different format, index/database is made for Photos, photos in iPhoto are not physically duplicated to Photos.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204655

Any changes or edits you make in iPhoto or Aperture aren't reflected in Photos. And any changes or edits you make in Photos aren't reflected in iPhoto or Aperture.
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Guess you should be able to reimport the Photos pictures into iPhoto, just need to be aware which pictures are untouched masters vs edited photos.

ADD: going forward, any new OS might have changes that will break iPhoto, so if willing to possibly stay on an old OS, have at it. Also, not sure if iPhotos is 32-bit: Mojave is last OS that will support 32 bit apps.
 
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I'm only using iPhoto to store images. I export them to PS for editing. My 2 TB iMac HD is almost full though and since, for some reason, I imported iPhoto images into Photos, I was hoping that I could delete Photos and recover some disc space. Guess that won't happen. I guess I can buy a 3 TB iMac but I'd like to wait until they are refreshed.

The compatibility of iPhoto with the next OS is another problem. I'm using an older OS now just because it works. Any suggestions for a program to use going forward that could function like iPhoto does for me that is not 32-bit?
 
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