Free Up That Disk Space - iPhoto
Jan 20, '11 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: bdrums83
For those of you who take a ton of pictures and use iPhoto, you've probably at some point or another run out of space on your hard drive. Especially if you shoot in Camera RAW. Well all those pictures that you've deleted, you know, the ones that didn't quite 'turn out' aren't really deleted and still exist on your hard drive.
To get rid of those photos that you thought you deleted but are still taking up your precious hard drive space, follow the directions below.
- Open iPhoto.
- Click the iPhoto menu in the menu bar and click Empty iPhoto Trash.
- Watch as you get back the gigabytes of space that those hundreds of pictures were taking up!
[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. This is one of those things that appears so obvious, but I know plenty of people who use Outlook on the PC who never think to empty its Recycle Bin, either. I always thought iPhoto was even more obtuse about that, since it's unlike most other Mac software that way.]
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