Why does my Photos library take up so much space?
The library contains 88 photos, most of which aren't high quality (less than a MB maybe).
Somehow this adds up to making the Photos Library folder into a 120GB folder.
I can't seem to figure out what is taking up the extra space.
Any ideas?
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
The finder gives you accurate information as noted in the post above - Grand Prospective is one to try for a more graphis view and see how you like
And nothing uses "about my Mac" to tell how much space you have - it sounds like you have a major space issue and are at risk of losing data - in teh finder right click on your system hard drive and get info - it tells how much space you have
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Is there any app out there that can give me an accurate depiction of my storage space, and it's contents? It's astounding how bad "About my Mac" is at giving any relevant or accurate information. Furthermore, my Mac uses it as a reference as to how much space is left. Since "about my Mac" estimates my pictures to be at about 30GB(even though I have next to no pictures), they don't allow me to import any photos to my Mac since "I don't have 15GB of space for it" I do have the space, my Mac just ***** at predicting storage so much that it thinks I don't, thus preventing me from carrying ou the action. Hope they fix this soon.
How did you create the library? Did you migrate an iPhoto Library or is the library new? Are you syncing with iCloud?
Have you emptied the "Recently Deleted" album?
The library is new. I just installed Photos when it came with 10.10.3.
My iPhoto Library is still a separate folder in Finder.
There are some shared iCloud photos, but outside of being shared and appearing in my sidebar, they're not in the main "photos" tab.
Have a look into the Photos Library package to see what is using the most space:
Open your Photos Library package by ctrl-clicking the Photos Library in the Pictures folder. From the contextual menu that will appear select "Show Package Contents".
Check the sizes of the folders you are seeing. Which item is using the most storage?
I have a similar problem to this.
If I 'get info' from my Pictures folder it says the folder is 8gb, yet if i go to storage in 'about this mac', it says photos take up 22gb.
Can anyone tell me the reason for 8gb vs 22gb and how I can get this down?
I don't have any photos outside of Pictures folder so I'm a bit confused.
The finder is correct - about this mac is not - it is a pretty picture that is completely worthless for taking any action
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Why does my Photos library take up so much space?
