Deleting iphoto

Not sure if this the right forum to post but I thought the readers would be more experienced here. 6 months ago I switched from iphoto to Aperture. I imported all my iphoto images into Aperture. I'm ready to delete my iphoto library. I backed up my computer to an external drive just in case anything goes wrong. However, I'd rather nothing go wrong and so before I just drag my iphoto library to the trash is there anything else I should do to check that all my pics are now contained in the Aperture library?

If you look in the pictures folder it will contain both iPhoto and Aperture library files. You imported photos from iphoto so the pictures are certainly in you AP library. When you open AP and look at all the folders, events etc on the left you will notice one that says iphoto library, this is the same problem i have and i have never deleted it because will it corrupt the main database file for cataloguing within aperture. Sorry not to help but this point must be answered before you proceed. If you have time machine running etc you can try it if you have the time. Also you could just retrieve the file from the trash.

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