Photos for Mac
Q: In Photos 2.0, Optimize Mac Storage is enabled but Photos will not free up hard drive space
I recently transferred about 90GB of photos into Mac Photos 2.0 (macOS 10.12 Sierra), and even with Optimize Mac Storage selected Photos will not free up hard drive space. In fact, my hard drive space has been very slowly decreasing, while my Mac Storage indicator says my Photos Library is slowly growing.
The only thing I can think of that might be preventing Photos from uploading my photos and not physically removing them from my Mac hard drive is that Photos is still scanning faces for the People tab. However, all uploading has completed.
Shouldn't most of these photos be being removed from my HD then to free up space?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Posted on Oct 2, 2016 5:16 PM