Move it to an external drive and see if Photos still behaves as normal, then delete if all’s well. Saving 52GB disk space is always good
_ Regards Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] www.macambulance.com MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 27 Mar 2020, at 14:14, itsagroup via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Sorry for another question, but I can’t find a definitive answer online or > even in Apple’s forums. > > I migrated my Aperture library to Photos years ago. Aperture no longer runs > on my current macOS and I’ve also been using iCloud Photos for about the last > three years. > > I’d like to save the 52GB taken up by my Aperture library if I can. Now, > online I know that when migrating from Aperture to Photos the Photos library > was hard-linked to the Photos library and though it looked like it was taking > loads of space, it actually wasn’t. What I can’t find is someone who says > “Now all your photos are stored in iCloud, the Aperture library will not even > be hard-linked to your Photos library so delete it and get the space back”! > > The last modified dates are November 2017 for Aperture and October 2019 for > Photos (even though I updated it last night). > > Is anything to be gained from deleting my Aperture library other than > tidiness? > > Cheers, > > Stephen > > > "We need to be hungry for life and less hungry for money" - Unknown > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/D3DA5A7E-54B1-4FC9-A9EC-333773637485%40icloud.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/3FD8325E-8A5A-4D72-A71F-A059C9C517BA%40macambulance.com.
