How do I find what is taking up all the space in my iMovie library?

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How do I find what is taking up all the space in my iMovie library?

If I find the my iMovie library in Finder, it's total size is a reported 15.59GB and, as far as I can tell, I cannot open it in Finder to see what files are taking up that space.

If I look at my iMovie library in iMovie, it apparently contains one event, which contains one movie.

If I select the move as then go to File -> Reveal in Finder, I can see all the folders and files associated with the event and they come to a grand total of 5.95 GB.

So, how do I find out what movies, clips or projects are taking up the other ~ 10GB in the iMovie library folder?

I'm using iMovie 10.0.5

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Feb 28, 2015 12:16 PM

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Answer 1

GeeD

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Feb 28, 2015 3:34 PM in response to Pickerpants

Like applications, iMovie libraries are packages. You can see what is inside by right-clicking on it in the Finder and selecting "Show Package Contents" There are folders for each event and within each of them folders for the various components. Just be careful not to alter anything.

Geoff.

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Pickerpants Author

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Mar 2, 2015 7:05 PM in response to GeeD

When I did that, I could still only see the same contents as shown in the third screenshot above. However, minutes after doing the "Show package contents", iMovie seems to have figured out that it didn't have 15GB of data in its library after all and updated its size accordingly. So, problem solved for now but I still find iMovie to be painful to use and I will probably avoid doing so as much as I can.

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