I imported an Aperture Library of 31.000 Photos and 200 GB in size. Thus, you might want to consider consolidating all your originals into your Aperture Library before you migrate, especially if you’re tight on disk space.

At that point there will be no more hard-linking any more and consolidating will double the disk space used by originals (as long as you still use your old Aperture library). BUT, if you later want to switch to iCloud Photo Library (and you should) you will be required to consolidate your originals into your Library.

If you had your originals in an external folder in Aperture, you can still import fine and everything will work as expected.

So you should merge anything you will want in your Photos library before the import.

Aperture allows you to merge libraries.

Any edits you make to your Photos or to your Aperture/iPhoto library after the import will NOT be reflected on the other side.

The importing and hard linking is more like 'forking', NOT like 'this stays in sync forever'.

This is useful if you he secondary Macs with junky libraries you want to replace with a clean iCloud synced version… Migration Caveats This way, Photos.app will let you create a new Library. Now, in case you actually don’t want to migrate your single iPhoto/Aperture library when you launch Photos for the first time, hold down the Alt or Option key during launch. If you have only one, it will import it automatically (again, it’s a non-destructive process). Note: If you have multiple Libraries, Photos will let you choose which one to import. Your Photos library will have all the files it needs. Similarly, if you decide you don’t need your iPhoto or Aperture library any more, you can delete it without worry. So if you decide you don’t like Photos and delete your Photos library, the Aperture or iPhoto library stays unharmed.

(You will use a little though for anything that is specific to Photos).Īlso, if you delete a hard linked file on one side, it’s still there on the other. So although you’ll have 2 libraries, you won’t use twice the disk space.

That means that both apps have a handle on the same file. Good news: it’s non-destructive and it doesn’t require double the disk space! When you import your iPhoto or Aperture library, Photos.app creates hard links to the images files already on your disk. Library Import/Migration Easier than expected So I started experimenting a little… Here’s a quick overview of my pain points and how I overcame them. Unfortunately, the Apple’s official page didn’t answer all my questions. After a lot of doubt and long consideration of alternatives such as Adobe Lightroom, I finally switched from Aperture to the new Photos app in Mac OS X 10.10.3 – and to the iCloud Photo library too.

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