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Q: no space in mac despite photo deletion

hi,

 

i deleted more than 3000 photos from my mac photo but macbook is not releasing space, trash bin is em

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5), my entire macbook is zero space

Posted on Jun 1, 2016 10:36 AM

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  • by rccharles,

    rccharles rccharles Jun 1, 2016 11:35 AM in response to Pimpurne
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    Jun 1, 2016 11:35 AM in response to Pimpurne

    You need to delete some files ASAP. 

     

     

    Best to have greater than 2gig of free space.  Many posters to these forums state that you need much more free space: 5 gig to 10 gig or 10 percent of you hd size.

     

     

     

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    Be careful when deleting files. A lot of people have trashed their system when deleting things.

     

    Place things in trash. Reboot & run your applications. Empty trash.

     

    Go after large files that you have created & know what they are.  Do not delete small files that are in a folder you do not know what the folder is for. Anything that is less than a megabyte is a small file these days.

     

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    Empty the trash.  Space isn't reclaimed until you empty the trash in three places!

    The trash can...

    --  in the dock

    -- for iPhoto

    -- with Mail

     

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    Run

    OmniDiskSweeper

    "The simple, fast way to save disk space"

    OmniDiskSweeper is now free!

    http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/download/

     

    This will give you a list of files and folders sorted by size. Go after things you know that are big.

     

    To see all files, you need to logon to each user on your system and run OmniDiskSweeper.

     

    Or you can take the riskier approach by using the root account to gain read/write access to all files on your system.  Be careful by deleting the wrong file, you will trash your system.

     

    sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper