How can I make certain my photos aren't replicated ad infinitum?
I have Photos 1.0.1 installed on a Macbook Pro Retina late 2013 running OS X v10.10.5
I recently solved a challenge with syncing my Photos on Mac with my iPhone 6 by reading here, but now I am stumped.
I am looking at my Photos library for the first time in a while and I am finding that I have extra copies of many images. 5 to 8 extras of many images. In looking at them, much of the Meta data is different, which may be partially, at least, due to a disk erasure & recovery incident I went through in 2014.
In looking through these boards, I learned what a referenced vs. a managed photo library is, and determined that I have a managed one. I saw where, due to this, deleting photos in Photos should remove the original file from the disk. This does not seem to be happening.
Could it be that my Photos library file, and my Picture folders are located on an external drive, rather than the default file structure on the startup disk?
It seems like eliminating additional, superfluous copies of photos in a 20,000+ image library could save me some disk space, but going through the library and then through all the folders in search of the extras will not be efficient.
I'd like to know that deleting a photograph from the Photos library will eliminate that photograph from my HDD. How can I ensure this?
Any thoughts on this?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), Intel Core I5, 16 GB RAM