Still Migrating

<!--kg-card-begin: markdown--><p>My second day transferring my iPhoto library to iCloud Photo Library seems to be going very well. The “optimize storage” feature on the iOS devices is going to save users a ton of space.</p>
<p>Yesterday when I posted my last entry I had a 16GB iPad completely full (which was roughly 7GB of photos.) When I returned, all the photos had been uploaded to iCloud, and returned 5GB of space. No matter what I throw at this (and I have about 19GB of images in iCloud now) the devices sit around 2GB utilized for photo storage.</p>
<p>When photos further back in the catalog that are not currently on the device are accessed, they’re retrieved from the cloud in full resolution.</p>
<p>I’m only about 1/5th the way through my library. I’ve been doing it in chunks as I have time, because during the upload process I tend to fully saturate my 5Mb upstream home connection.</p>
<p>If you’ve not turned on iCloud Photo Library yet, even if you don’t intend to do as I’m doing and dump everything into it, you’re really missing out.</p>
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