What is this magic? How can it not duplicate the photos, yet not risk losing all your data if you were to throw away your old iPhoto library? The Photos import process is friendly when it comes to disk space - it doesn’t duplicate the photos it imports from iPhoto and Aperture, so you don’t lose precious storage space. The (hard) link between Photos and iPhotoĪs I wrote my TidBITS article about the initial beta release of Photos for OS X, I was struck by how iPhoto imports work, which I described like this:
