Although you’ll save disk space by referencing your iPhoto files, you’ll lose out on a key advantage of using Aperture: its Vault feature won’t back up referenced files (see “Why Move to. Optimize storage space on your Mac. MacOS can help make more room on your Mac by optimizing its storage. When space is needed, it keeps files, photos and videos, Apple TV movies and shows, and email attachments in iCloud and makes them available on demand.
Your pictures didn't get deleted because they still exist in iPhoto or Aperture, whichever one you use. As Apple says in this support article, Photos saves disk space by creating links to the already-existing files in iPhoto/Aperture, rather than duplicating them.That means that if you want to delete a file, you need to make sure it's deleted everywhere. I want to put all my iPhoto library on an external disk before I even think about upgrading as I have read iPhoto will no longer work when Catalina is installed. I genuinely hate the photos app and much prefer the ease and control I have with iPhoto. When I click on the iPhoto in my applications folder, there isn't any library there.' Click on the iPhoto library (in your picture file?) with COMMAND 'I' (as in eye or aye aye). You may also use COMMMAND 'J' in the file where the iPhoto library is located and select the 'size' box.
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I take all my photos in the RAW format. As some of these pictures can be 30MB each, space disappears quickly. Along with this helpful hint, here's another space-saving idea: 90% of my raw images don't need to be raw. Select the raw images and drag them to a temporary folder on the desktop. This creates JPG versions of them. Delete the raw files and empty trash, then drag the JPGs back in. You will have to redo faces and albums and keywords, but the space save is enormous.
to free up disk space... empty the trash.
So smart!
OK iPhoto has its own trash, but really does this deserve a hint?
It's even showing up in my sidebar, how can you miss that?
Honestly I think it does merit a hint, just because it's not really standard behavior for an app to have its own trash. iTunes will ask if you want to delete files, but iPhoto doesn't do that. So I'm sure there are plenty of people out there (newbies perhaps) who thought they were freeing up disk space when they actually weren't. Good hint.
The iPhoto trash is not only not the same as the finder trash, but most people don't know it's even there.
And on top of that, it doesn't work like every other 'Trash' out there, in that when you run out of space, it doesn't automatically empty itself. And if you quit iPhoto, the trash is still there, but you can't even see it or access it.
I filed a bug report on this stupid mis-feature in iPhoto about 4 years ago.
I have *never* seen my Mac OS empty my Trash for me - what I have seen when getting low on free disk space though is a warning popping up alerting me to my problem.
I would consider it rude for an OS to empty my trash behind my back (maybe Winblow$ does it like that I have never examined it but have noticed a setting for how large many % are reserved for the trash or something like that…
I used a third party application to try and clean up space...and it somehow deleted iPhoto entirely. Now I can't get the application back. Advice?
My advise would be don't use 3rd party disk cleaners unless you're sure about what they are deleting! lol
I'm guessing you don't have a TM (or other) backup... Is the problem that you can't get your photos back, or the program (or both?) If it's the photos, I'm sorry but I think they might be lost if you don't have backups (though you could try some sort of file recovery/undelete program - I've used them with some degree of success-about 50% I'd say- I forget which program(s) I ended up using, but one name I remember is FileSalvage.)
If it's the program that you can't get back, is the problem that it won't let you reinstall? Or do you not have the reinstallation media? If it's he latter, I'm sorry but I think you are out of luck and will have to obtain another copy. I might suggest the new Mac App Store (especially since you can always redownload from there once you make a purchase. I've never tried Aperture, but I hear it's much better than iPhoto and is on sale in the App Store.) If it just won't let you reinstall, what error are you getting? Maybe search your system for any remaining iPhoto stuff, and delete it first?
My final advise would be to start making back ups of your system. You can get a 1TB external drive for under $100, and it's so easy to set up backups in Time Machine and once it's set up you don't need to think about it!
I think this deserves to win this monthly hint contest. It's really dumb that iPhoto has its own trash. It never even occured to me that it would have one, although now that I checked I saw it in the sidebar of iPhoto.
It helped me clear a good gig of old useless data (don't use iPhoto much).
As for the missing iPhoto app... try to recover it using your Snow Leopard install DVD, there should be an extra disc with iLife stuff on it, including iPhoto.
Iphoto Insufficient Disk Space
Does anyone know what exactly this removes? Is it just clearing the undo history for edits, or what?
Iphoto Insufficient Disk Space
No, there is a trash within iPhoto (it believe you can see it on the sidebar) and when you 'delete' a photo, it is just sent to iPhoto's trash and not actually deleted. So this 'hint' is actually quite obvious, but I agree it is still a hint since most people don't realize the trash is there (including myself for a long time.) I'm not sure why iPhoto doesn't use the Trash in the Finder - isn't that what iTunes does?