IPhoto to Photos in Lightroom, to El Capitan Mountain Lion

Hi all

I am currently 10.8.5 OS as I just never took the time to upgrade the operating system (stupid I know).  Now, I would like to upgrade the operating system to El Capitan, which in turn from my understanding will make obsolete iPhoto and put pics in existence on my mac.  I would firstly only using Lightroom for my photo editing but don't know where to start.  I have my backup time machine and all recently copied my iPhoto library to an external hard drive.

One of the problems is that my HD has only 23 GB available on the left and my photo library is more than 100 GB.  Someone at the genius bar told me that the Photos would copy all those who, when I initially switch so necessary to have 200 GB of free space? Is this true? If so, that will be limiting it step I need to set first by my photo backup and then delete on my HD.

Basically, I'm just in the whole confused about what I should do.  I consider myself as a hobby enthusiast when it comes to taking pictures and a complete and total novice/jerk when it comes to their management later.  Now they are all sitting in a large library in iPhotos and I really didn't have the first idea what I have to do to clean up the mess I made.

Thank you very much in advance for any help you can offer,

John

Yes with the upgrade to El captain should not upgrade to Photos - if you have iPhoto 9.6.1 before upgrading the OS, you can continue to use it until a future upgrade of the BONE breaks, but it is not maintained and external links like Apple print products are currently abandoned

You don't have to use the Photos and you do not have to migrate your library if you don't want to - if you do not want to migrate you will need more space - and you will probably need more space to migrate to LightRoom (which, if it is new for you has a large learning curve and does not fit with Mac programs like t-Photos - 23GB is basically the absolute bare minimum free space) , so you do really need to address that no matter what you are doing for the management of the photos or even if you stay with your current software - either put the Photos (and possibly the music) library on an external drive or buying a larger for your Mac drive

Migration to doe Photos not double space needed - once the migration is complete, it will take a very small amount of extra space - Photos saves disk space to share images with your iPhoto or Aperture - Apple Support libraries

LN

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