It will depend on the pixel size of the individual photos, but my library has roughly 50000 photos and a size of 249.8 GB. Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can provide. This is the entire last 10 years of my family's memories so it's important to us.
I've been struggling with this issue for about a year now in various forms and I don't know where else to turn for answers (Apple Store was of little assistance). We typically create albums and put those in the cloud so anything we really want to view is available via that approach regardless.Ħ) If splitting the library is a good solution, what's the best approach to this? Aperature, or? Does this ratio seem accurate or is something else going on?Ģ) Is there any benefit to running the repair utility again now that I have a "new" Mac? Or is the problem likely in the old library regardless of where it's stored?ģ) I plan on purchasing one of the de-duplicate utilities that exist as I know there are some older photos that are duplicates (and probably a number of HDR duplicates as well), and they should all be cleaned up.Ĥ) What is the best course of action for managing a large Photos library? Would using Aperature (as opposed to Photos) help?ĥ) Does anyone have any recommendations about potentially "splitting" the massive library into smaller libraries (say by year)? What are the pros/cons of this approach? I know you'd have to switch libraries to view, but this might be agreeable to us. I'm currently working with the old "full" library.ġ) Should a library of 54,100 photos be 222GB in size? I have seen other references online that have half the photos and the library is 20% of the size, etc. The repaired version was a bit smaller, but also removed the most recent "year"s worth of photos approximately. The machine seems to be working OK but I do fear that this large Photos library is going to continue to sap resources unless something is done about it.Īlso of note: BEFORE the hard drive was replaced, I ran the Repair utility on the old Photos library. When I opened it from the external drive on the "new" Mac, it took about 30 minutes to open (was "updating library"). The Photos library is 54,100 photos and is 222GB in size (all photos since 2008 and my wife takes a lot of pictures.
Then I had the 1TB hard drive replaced with a 250GB SSD drive with a clean install of OSX. I backed up everything and moved Photos and iTunes libraries to an external drive. After some investigation, was informed the 1TB hard drive was corrupted/damaged. It was also failing to import a lot of photos, unless I batched the imports into smaller chunks - bottom line, it was acting very suspiciously.
was taking "hours" to download photos from iPhone to Mac. I have conducted NUMEROUS web searches and seem to get 100 different answers/recommendations.Ī bit of background - have a 2011 iMac and was experiencing extreme sluggishness when Photos open e.g. Hoping someone in the community can help me out.