i have backed all my pictures unto an external drive and deleted all pictures on my macbook but it still shows as occupying 27gb of hard disk space. can someone please help me. I really need that free space
MacBook Pro with Retina display
Download and run OmniDiskSweeper (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7402/omnidisksweeper) to find out where your pictures are hiding. If they are inside your Photos Library (my library is >100GB), you might want to move that to an external hard drive, as long as it's connected through cable with your Macbook and formatted for Mac as well.
If you really want to remove everything from your mac simply drag the Photos library to the trash and empty the trash - there is no undo for this -- and if 27 BG is a problem you need a better solution as you are very short on space even after recovering that
And note that you do not have a backup since you deleted the photos from your Mac - a backup requires two or more copies of the same data on different drives - putting a copy on a different drive and deleting the original is not a backup and with no backup you are 100% guaranteed to lose your photos sooner or later
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