Hard Drive Management.

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Riddlesdown Author

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Hard Drive Management.

Sorry about dejavu. I accidentally set original as solved!

I'm running Monterey 12.3.1.

I moved the Photos Library to an external HD and that is working fine.

I deleted the Library from my Hard Drive and it is no longer shown in Finder.

But when I go into About This Mac, Storage, then manage it still shows the Library Icon and 79.42 GB.

What has gone wrong and how do I fix it please?

iMac 27″, macOS 12.3

Someone suggested Inventory X and I'm now working my way through its results. Still have original problem but solved one I didn't know I had!

iMac 27″, macOS 12.3

Posted on May 24, 2022 6:51 AM

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TonyCollinet

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May 24, 2022 9:53 AM in response to Riddlesdown

As I said in your other version - the manage storage info includes photo libraries on external drives. No idea why it does this, but it is what it is. (It might be when the external library is set as the system library)

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Yer_Man

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May 24, 2022 7:27 AM in response to Riddlesdown

But when I go into About This Mac, Storage, then manage it still shows the Library Icon and 79.42 GB.

A very unreliable measure of anything on your Mac, but you could rebuild your Spotlight Index and see if that corrects it.

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

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Riddlesdown Author

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May 28, 2022 2:47 AM in response to TonyCollinet

Thank you.

I sat down with a calculator and it seems they do show the Photos Library under the main HD despite it being on an external drive.

Someone needs to sort out the graphics here as the externally held library is sandwiched between "Music" and "macOS"!

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May 24, 2022 7:24 AM in response to Riddlesdown

How did you delete the library from the hard drive? If you moved it to the trash, did you empty the trash afterwards?

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