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I'm getting a new MacBook Pro. Trying to decide how large a hard drive to get. l Want to transfer all my photos from Lightroom Classic and Apple photos (including iPhoto) to the MacBook Pro. How can I find out how many GB of the photos from each one. Will transfer just the photos from the my iMac to MacBook pro. Nothing else. Have 69,000 photos in Lightroom Classic file and 26,000 in Apple photo library. Thank you.
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More information would be helpful.
Above will help to determine the smallest drive to be considered.
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The MacBook pro will be independent of my iMac. i.e. Everything to do with Lightroom amd Photoshop
Will be on the iMac Pro.
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For Classic, hopefully all your images are stored in a single folder location. In that case, you can just do a get info in Finder on that folder and you should get the total size of the images in Classic. You should also do this for the catalog file and for the previews folder next to it. This should give you an estimate of total amount of space it is taking up.
For Photos, it depends on whether you are using iCloud photo library. If you are then effectively the images take up no space as they will download from Apple's servers on demand and you don't even have to copy it over to the other computer. Just log on to the same iCloud account and you're off. If you are not doing that, just do a get info on the Photos Library.photoslibrary file you'll find in your Pictures folder. If you're still using iPhoto, there is a similarly named container in the same pictures folder.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for your reply.
Thank four your reply.
Don’t know if all my photos are in a
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Look in the left panel in Lightroom Classic. Next to the indicator for the main hard disk you will see a small indicator that shows how much space the images are taking up on your internal disk. In the screenshot below you can see I have 295 GB of data used by images on my internal hard disk. You can also see 7TB of images on my NAS. Do realize that this doesn't count the amount of storage your previews on your internal hard disk take. For that you have to use finder. I can't help you figure out which catalog files are the right ones. You can see which one is open at the moment by looking in Classic at the File Menu and looking at which catalog file has a checkmark in front of it in "Open Recent". Not sure what you mean by not using iPhoto but still wanting the photos from it? Again those should have self-contained libraries in the Pictures folder you can find in finder.