Preparing for Photos - exporting RAW files

I'm planning to switch over to Photos when it is available. The problem is that my current Aperture file is quite big - 1.64TB and I think the online Photos option only allows for 1TB.
What I'll probably do is take out all of the RAW files and archive them on an old hard drive. Is there an easy way to systematically remove all RAW files, making sure there is a JPEG file left behind? I've never done anything like this before, so this might be much easier than I realize!

Hi John,
Since PhotOSX is not yet in even in public beta release, I suggest — emphatically — not doing anything or worrying about preparing for the transition yet. Further, since Aperture works and will continue to work, and since all new software is buggy, I suggest waiting until at least PhotOSX 1.1 (or equivalent) is released before making the transition. The issue you are addressing is likely to have a different solution then than it has now. No one outside of Apple has any idea — and those in Apple don't know with certainty — what the resolution of your issue is going to be.
That said, I think you should do the following now, all of which serve to tidy up your Aperture Library and installation. (You may be doing all of these as part of your routine maintenance.)
- Weed your garden. We save _a lot_. What can you remove and destroy without lowering the value of your collection?
- Organize your toolshed:
- - Combine, relocate, and remove keywords.
- - Make your object names uniform. If you don't have one written down, write down your Library naming conventions for Images, Projects, Albums, Smart Albums, and Folders.
- - Organize all your Presets (throw out the ones you needed once, and still have).
- - Delete (or change the status of) all Images marked "Rejected". "Rejected" should not be a permanent tag.
- - Work to have no Images flagged (Flagging is an ad-hoc tag for work-in-progress. You should have no Images flagged at the end of any completed work session.)
- - Make sure the folders you use to organize the other containers in your Library make sense and provide the utility you want.
- - Attend to anything that you "left for later".
- Repair your greenhouse Library. I do this regularly with _every_ Library.
- Upgrade your OS to Yosemite.
- Upgrade Aperture to the latest version under Yosemite.
All of the above will help insure that porting your data from one database to another will go smoothly.
Always have a complete back-up of any computer file before you use it.
Hope some of that is useful,
—Kirby.

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