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GeneralApple too clever by half Pin
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So, apple have come out with Photos - the replacement for iPhoto.

not sure why - but there you have it - no real choice as iPhoto effectively deprecated (although you can continue to use current versions.

So, I have 250Gb of photos in iPhoto on my NAS.
Open Photos, it asks me if I want to convert to Photos.
"Sure!"
Hours later it finishes, I have a play, all looks good, if not particularly different, and that's that.
Then I want to look at some photos on my other machine.
No worries.
Open Photos, select photo library, says it needs to convert it! Oh well. Say OK.

Long story short -

When it converts on a Mac drive it does so using hard links - so one copy of the photo, but two libraries - one iPhoto library and on Photos library. iPhoto updates one library while Photos updates the other.

But because it's on the NAS (I think) it duplicates the photos too. so now I had 500Gb photos split across two libraries - and when I opened the iPhoto library in Photos a second time, "Something went Wrong"

Now, of course I have backups, so nothing too tragic - but playing with 250Gb of files is never a fun job when you're not sure what's wrong.

Finally I decided to take a copy of the (working) iPhoto library, then delete the Photos library and re-convert.

It's doing that now.

If it fails,I will cry

It's certainly a clever tricj to use hard links to save having to copy photos when upgrading - but it would have been nice to get a "I'm about to copy 250Gb of photos - is that really what you want to do" warning!
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