I moved my Photo Library to an external drive but my system drive is showing 240 GB of photos. How can I recapture the space? I tried reindexing the drive by deleted spotlight, bu tit still showing the space being used.
Mac Pro, macOS 11.6
When you drag an item to an external drive, it doesn't move or delete the original. Instead, it copies the files to the drive (in this case, the photo library).
After copying the library, just delete the original on your computer. Drag it to the Trash and empty it. It's important to make sure and plug in the external drive before opening Photos!
Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
When you drag an item to an external drive, it doesn't move or delete the original. Instead, it copies the files to the drive (in this case, the photo library).
After copying the library, just delete the original on your computer. Drag it to the Trash and empty it. It's important to make sure and plug in the external drive before opening Photos!
Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support
To find out where my space is used, I use disk inventory X
Which gives a graphical and hierarchical list view of the space used.
I believe there is an indexing / trash issue. I don't have a photo library on the internal drive. Not sure how to fix the indexing.
Deleted Photo Library Taking Drive Space - Big Sur
