How to compact iPhoto library
My iPhoto library that contains 64,000 photos has grown to over 800GB! 😮
I am beginning to think that this is not going to be sustainable & I am just an average Dad taking the usual family-photo-home-movie.
I had tried an experiment earlier. I created a brand new iPhoto library and its size is about 7 MB. Then I imported a ton (about 2 GB actually) of photos and home video (taken mostly with iPhone) into it. The size swelled to more than 2 GB. Then I went to delete EVERYTHING and emptied the iPhoto trash can & Mac OS X trash can. When I checked, the iPhoto library pretty much stayed at more than 2 GB although I have ZERO photo or video within the library. What's going on here?
Is there a way to compact / compress / purge / etc the iPhoto library? Please help.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB DDR3