{"id":310,"date":"2015-04-26T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramandv.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2015-04-26T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T10:37:21","slug":"iphoto-library-vs-photos-library-can-you-reduce-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramandv.com\/blog\/iphoto-library-vs-photos-library-can-you-reduce-space\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhoto Library vs  Photos Library  &#8211; Can you reduce space?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"40a70f14e7b284806d122b51a843a1be\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-4917982260456644\";\r\n\/* ramandv.com-ad1 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"9226290554\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>After the new release of photos, iphoto will be discontinued. I didn&#8217;t even bother rather realized about this upgrade till one day. I wanted to reduce space in my mac, iphoto library as well as photos library was taking large space.<\/p>\n<p>When I did find command, both are having duplicate content. But after some Google search, found this article, which clearly explains that files are not duplicate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT204476\">https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT204476<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple achieved this using hardlinking both files. You can verify this with the following command.<\/p>\n<pre><code>ls -i &lt;image file\/video file with path&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Take any image file which is duplicated in both directory and execute the above command. The inode will be same for both files.<\/p>\n<p>You can find difference between hard link vs symlink<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/185899\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-symbolic-link-and-a-hard-link\">http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/185899\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-symbolic-link-and-a-hard-link<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the new release of photos, iphoto will be discontinued. I didn&#8217;t even bother rather realized about this upgrade till one day. 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