I have nothing on my mac, but also no space

Did you find the answer to this?!? I have the same problem! Help would be appreciated!

All the storage was being used up by photos and movies so I removed them all to an external hard drive. I tried emptying my trash, restarting etc etc but my mac was still telling me there was 68GB in my Photo Library, see below

When I clicked into the Library there was nothing there, it was odd. I messaged support and we ended up deleting the Photo Library at this level, this worked, I have freed up space on my mac but I don't think it addressed the problem; deleting the Library seems like a brash solution and may not be available to all users.

If some light can be shed on the underlying problem it would be appreciated fingers crossed it doesn't happen again.

Try safe boot. This will run disk utility to check and repair any file system problems. Chance of disk corruption causing wrong statistics on disk usage.

Try a safe boot.

Shutdown your machine. Hold down the shift key. Poweron. Wait awhile; wait awhile while you harddrive

is being checked.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455

R

OmniDiskSweeper (free download)

<http://www.omnigroup.com/more>

When using OmniDiskSweeper, or any utility that shows all your files... See the following article if you want to run it as root

<http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_to_recover_missing_hard_drive_space>

DO NOT delete files in your Home Folder -> Library tree as there are things like your iPhone backups, your email messages, your application preferences, etc… If you think you have found something in your Home Folder -> Library that can be deleted, you should ask first.

DO NOT delete files outside your home folder, as you may end up deleting something essential to Mac OS X, and turn your Mac into an expensive “Door Stop”.

I will point out that you will find some very large files in private -> var -> vm (these are the Mac OS X virtual memory paging files (swapfiles) and where Mac OS X stores the copy of RAM when your Mac is put to sleep). The swapfiles get deleted on reboot, and the sleep image is just going to be created again when you put your Mac to sleep.

If you think you have found something to delete outside your home folder, it would be best to ask first before deleting. There are many examples of people deleting files outside their home folder, or renaming files, or changing the ownership or file permissions, and then their Mac stops running. Do not be one of those people. Ask first.

Have you tried OmniDiskSweeper as per my post?

Once you find out where all your space has gone, then more help can be provided.

Also it would be good if you could provide the "Exact" wording of the error message. Maybe a screen shot (command-Shift-4, then select the area of the screen to capture, and finally drag and drop the screen **** file from your Desktop to your forum reply edit box).

When Photos came along, the Photos Library was created using hard links to the iPhotos Library.

A file system hard link is just 1 file with multiple directories/folders pointing at the same file. If you delete the name from one directory/folder, the file will continue to exist because there are still links in other folders/directories pointing to it. The storage for the file will not be deleted until every last link to the file has been removed.

So if you deleted just the Photos Library, or just the iPhotos Library, but not the other, then there would still be 1 link to each file, and thus the pictures would still be taking up storage on your file system.

That being said, what it the best way to delete photos I have in the Photos Library? They didn't seem to anywhere else, i.e I deleted the individual photos in the Photos Library and the storage issue wasn't resolved, only when I deleted the Photos Library folder was the storage issue resolved, this is all one app, no other apps where using the photos.

Do you have multiple accounts on the Mac?

R