My storage shows me wrong details on Mac

My storage shows me that on my Mac currently 43GB is taken on photos but I just exported all photos to my hard drive and deleted everything from Photos, it is empty now. I tried to restart laptop multiple times, it still shows me that I have 43GB of Photos. How to fix it?

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.13

Posted on Dec 2, 2019 7:34 AM

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Dec 2, 2019 8:23 AM in response to MariamAkhinova

Don't trust the "Storage" report, only use that number for amusement, as I'm not sure it's ever been right.

OmniDiskSweeper shows you the files on your drive, largest to smallest, and lets you quickly Trash or open them.

https://www.omnigroup.com/more/

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Dec 2, 2019 11:49 AM in response to BDAqua

thank you. it was helpful!

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Dec 2, 2019 2:00 PM in response to MariamAkhinova

Great news Miriam & good luck! :)

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