Q: Running out of HD space with optimised library
I have a large iCloud photo library of around 30k photos (330 gigs) which is stored in full on a mac mini I run as a server (backed up to a Time Machine).
This is synced to my iPhone 6 and I also to my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011, El Captian 10.11.4 beta) as an optimised library.
My problem is the laptop's SSD hard is only 250GB and photos is consistently filling it up with photos right to the brink. At the moment I have 2.54GBs left. Sometimes it goes down to a couple of hundred megabytes. It doesn't seem that Photos is flushing the photos cache properly. It's frustrating because I then can't download any large files or update the software etc. Not sure if this is a beta problem or if it's something anyone else has encountered?
My photos library reads as being 109.39GB in the User > Pictures folder. In the storage tab on 'About This Mac', it lists photos as taking up 35.89GB.
My question is what is the best was to resolve it? It's such a closed box it's difficult to diagnose what it's doing. I've tried:
- restarting
- turning optimises library on and off in photos prefs
I'm thinking of:
- repairing library
- deleting library from this mac and re-syncing it down (not sure about the safest way to do this though!)
Thanks in advance for any help.
Alex
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), null
Posted on Jun 11, 2016 3:54 AM