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motorat Author

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Transfer from iPhoto to Photos

Is it possible to transfer photos from iPhoto to photos while leaving them in iphoto also?

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 2:23 PM

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Keith Barkley

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Posted on Oct 12, 2020 2:34 PM

Sure. Launch Photos with the option key held down. From the resulting dialog, choose your iPhoto Library. Photos will create a new library from your iPhoto media. your iPhoto Library will not be changed.

Note too, that Photos will use hard links to refer to the originals in the iPhoto Library, so you will save on disk space.

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