Ok, Apple is giving us very little choice but to migrate to the truly crappy Photos app from iPhoto as they are slowly hobbling iPhoto so I figure I'll make the move.
Problem I have is this...
I tried it a while back & gave up due to the enormous number of missing features & the truly mind-numbingly bad features so this means that if I open Photos it has my library up to that past date but not a recent version.
So I thought... okay, I'll just flick the various files for Photos I'll force it to start again.
Problem... if I go into my Pictures folder in my Home folder there are 3 x .photoslibrary folders all of which have different creation dates, I'm assuming that this was when I knowingly tried it before.
The most recent folder says it's the same size as my iPhoto library, 1.31Tb.
Now I was under the impression that Photos didn't actually duplicate your iPhoto library, that it just referenced it & started a new one for new additions.
So... why is this Photos library showing so large if it's just referencing (the other 2 are saying they are 956G & 1.3Tb which all actually adds up to more than my hard-disk capacity...)
So... short version...
Can I just drop these in the trash along with any preferences files & then launch Photos to force it to start a new library?
Problem I have is this...
I tried it a while back & gave up due to the enormous number of missing features & the truly mind-numbingly bad features so this means that if I open Photos it has my library up to that past date but not a recent version.
So I thought... okay, I'll just flick the various files for Photos I'll force it to start again.
Problem... if I go into my Pictures folder in my Home folder there are 3 x .photoslibrary folders all of which have different creation dates, I'm assuming that this was when I knowingly tried it before.
The most recent folder says it's the same size as my iPhoto library, 1.31Tb.
Now I was under the impression that Photos didn't actually duplicate your iPhoto library, that it just referenced it & started a new one for new additions.
So... why is this Photos library showing so large if it's just referencing (the other 2 are saying they are 956G & 1.3Tb which all actually adds up to more than my hard-disk capacity...)
So... short version...
Can I just drop these in the trash along with any preferences files & then launch Photos to force it to start a new library?
