Q: When I delete photos from Photos, why don't I gain any storage space? (Yes, I emptied the "Recently Deleted" photos.")
I needed space on my Macbook Pro, so moved over 9000 photos to an external HD. After deleting them from Photos, I emptied the hidden "Recently Deleted" folder. I don't see them in my Trash, but I don't see any change in my HD space (the Mac, not the external HD). I have about 18 GB (out of 250 GB) free, and Photos told me that I had about 46 GB before the transfer. I just checked the About This Mac window and it says that 58 GB is allotted to photos. Obviously some of those are probably in my Docs folder or something, but how do I get rid of the bulk of them?
Is there yet another secret folder that I need to delete?
INFO:
Yosemite 10.10.4
Photos 1.0.1
Help, please!
Jen
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), 250 GB hard drive; 4 GB RAM
Posted on Aug 16, 2015 4:08 PM
do you still have your iPhoto library that was the source of the Photos library? If so then you must delete from there too or delete the entire iphoto library is you are absolutely sure you longer want or need it
LN
Posted on Aug 16, 2015 4:58 PM