SteveW4130
Level 1 (0 points)

Q: 8gb of 'phantom' photo's - Help with locating and deleting these photo's.

Hi, I have a Mid 2011 MacBook Air, currently running OS X El Capitan. I am having trouble with what seems to be 8.17gb of photo's stored on the hard drive when I have always kept my files stored on an external drive.

 

I previously used OS X Yosemite and the Photos/photo stream application, I stored all my files on my external drive but I later found out it stores small thumbnail images on the internal hard drive. Since updating to El Capitan I removed all the old photo library files and the new version holds very little data. When I access 'About my Mac / Storage' it still shows 8.17gb of photo's but I just can't see where they can be. I have ran Omni Disk Sweeper software and that does not show anything that large either. I have attached a screen shot so you can see what I mean. I hope this makes sense! I don't mind wiping the hard disk and starting again but i'm just very curious/frustrated that I can't find a 'normal' solution.

 

Screen Shot 2016-01-11 at 12.06.15.png

 

Thanks

Steve

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Jan 11, 2016 4:28 AM

by OGELTHORPE,Solvedanswer
OGELTHORPE OGELTHORPE
Level 9 (52,710 points)
Mac OS X
A:

That display from your MBP is often incorrect and cannot be relied upon.  Often, but not always, it can be corrected by reindexing Spotlight>

 

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716

 

Ciao.

Posted on Jan 11, 2016 4:57 AM

Close
SteveW4130

Q: 8gb of 'phantom' photo's - Help with locating and deleting these photo's.

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers