It may look like your remaining iPhoto or Aperture library is taking up twice the space on your hard drive, but it isn't-your images exist only in one location, even though you may have more than one photo library.Īfter you migrate your iPhoto or Aperture library to Photos, you might feel tempted to delete your original iPhoto or Aperture library. When Finder reports the file size of your Photos library, it includes all your originals and previews. Instead, Photos saves disk space by creating links to the original and preview versions of your images. When you migrate a photo library from iPhoto or Aperture, the Photos app creates a new library structure but doesn't duplicate your images. According to Apple, however, your photos aren't duplicated: Photos creates its own library file container of all of your photos, just as you had with iPhoto. But you don't need to delete your iPhoto library. Since Apple is no longer developing iPhoto (or Aperture, for that matter), I don't see a need to keep the iPhoto app after you are up and running and satisfied with Photos. You may be tempted to ditch both to save space. Once you've made the switch from iPhoto to Photos, you'll probably wonder what you can do with the iPhoto app and your iPhoto library. You can enable iCloud Photo Library and at the same time choose the Optimize Mac Storage option on the iCloud tab in Preferences. The default setting is the former, so if you want to optimize your Mac's storage, then select Not Now when during the initial setup Photos asks if you want to use iCloud Photo Library. Open Preferences and on the iCloud tab and switch from Download Originals to this Mac to Optimize Mac Storage.
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Photos for Mac has a similar setting to help you optimize storage on your Mac. This arrangement allows you to access your local copies of your photos and videos, which means less lag than if iOS had to locate them on iCloud before displaying them.
And to save space on your iPhone, you can choose the Optimized iPhone Storage option, which uploads full-resolution photos and videos to iCloud and keeps "optimized versions" on your iPhone. Then in Settings, go to Photos & Camera and tap the toggle switch to enable iCloud Photo Library.
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To use your iOS devices, update to iOS 8.3, which removes the beta tag from the mobile iCloud Photo Library offering.
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