Confused about the disk space with the photo library

I understand that Photos uses hard links, and that therefore the photo library should not take much more space than the old Aperture library. But in a sense, I think that's not strictly true, and ' t actually takes this amount of space.

My current photo library is 174 GB. The old library of opening that I imported in April is 155 GBs I have a couple of other files in images, representing perhaps 10 MBs. Finder reports my folder of photos using 330 GBs.

Worse still, the disk hard integer (which is 500 GB) said I have only about 8 GB of free. When I look at the files that take the place, it seems that the GBs 330 is exact, so the vast majority of the use of the disk is duplicated libraries.

I kind of thought maybe I had actually an extra GBs 155 or something, because old files of opening were now linked to the photo library. But this doesn't seem to be the case.

Can someone explain this to me? I want to blow the Aperture library, because I have no intention to never use Aperture again, but I'm afraid that there are files in this library that have never in Photos, so duplication.

Thank you!

My current photo library is 174 GB. The old library of opening that I imported in April is 155 GBs I have a couple of other files in images, representing perhaps 10 MBs. Finder reports my folder of photos using 330 GBs.

Storing hard linked files is reported incorrectly.

This is because the hard linked files are identical to the original files, and so the storage is counted twice by the Finder.

See: Six colors: the (hard) link between iPhoto and photo

The library of Photos that is created from your Aperture library should have approximately the same size as the original opening library, but the image inside the library are stored on the same disk as the same pictures blocks in the original Aperture library.

But once you start working with the new photos of library, more links will break for the preview images.  If you change a photo, a new preview will created, and who will no longer be linked to the preview in Aperture. It will be saved there less storage, so. Also, if you used a custom size for previews in Aperture, the new extracted in pictures will need extra storage.

Or, if you use iCloud library synchronization with iCloud may break references.  Original on your Mac could be replaced by iCloud original during synchronization and verification duplicates.

If you no longer use the Aperture library, move it to an external drive to free storage on the internal drive.  If you discover missing photos in the photo library, you can access the Aperture library on external drive as well.

See this document on what kind of reader to use: use locally mounted volumes extended, Mac OS X for your Aperture library

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