Deleting iPhoto's off my Laptop to free up memory

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Deleting iPhoto's off my Laptop to free up memory

Help please - I have transferred all my pictures currently on Photo on to a stand alone hard drive

I also want to keep my most recent holiday pictures on my lap top and delete the other albums to free up some memory. Have pressed delete album on up to 20 albums but the "amount of memory left hasn't changed.

Anybody have any idea why?

Second question if I take up the apple offer and store all my photos in the cloud will this free up memory on my laptop ?

Cheers - MP

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)

Posted on Sep 19, 2016 10:45 AM

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Answer 1

LarryHN

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Sep 19, 2016 11:06 AM in response to Marky P

To get help you first have to provide details since we can not see your or your computer - You posted in the iPhoto for Mac forum but talk about Photos for Mac and give no clue to what OS you have - what version of the OS do you have and what photos software are you using (name and version)

In either Photos or iPhoto deleting from an album saves no space as albums are not a place but simply one way to view your photos and albums take no space - and again withou knowing what software you actually have we can not tell you specifically how to delete photos from your Mac

If you are using iPhoto where you posted then iCloud Photo Library is not an option - if you are instead using Photos then it is and if you set it to use optimized photos it will reduct space requirements on your laptop but again unless we have details we can not tell you everything you need to know

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Marky P Author

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Sep 19, 2016 11:08 AM in response to LarryHN

HI Larry - thanks so much - sorry for any confusion my laptop is running on OS XEL Capitan 10.11.6

My pictures are stored on Photos

I have deleted albums but this has not freed up any space

Does this clarify at all ?

many thanks

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léonie

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Sep 19, 2016 11:17 AM in response to Marky P

Deleting an album does just delete the album, but the photos inside the album will remain in the Photos Library.

You have to delete the photos. Select the photos you want to remove from your library and enter the key combination command-delete ⌘⌫ . That will move the photos to the recently Deleted album, where you can recover them for thirty days or delete them immediately.

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LarryHN

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Sep 19, 2016 2:20 PM in response to Marky P

Yes - since you have Photos and posted in the iPhoto forum until we verified the details any answers would have been totally wrong

and

In either Photos or iPhoto deleting from an album saves no space as albums are not a place but simply one way to view your photos and albums take no space

In Photos under El Captain you can either select the photos in the album (not the album but the photos) and hold the command key down while pressing the delete key or right clicking and selecting delete "n" photos - or select the photos in moments and press command delete - then go to the recently deleted album adn delete form there (or wait about 30 days) and if the photos were migrated from iPhoto you also have to delete in the iPHoto library or archive and delete the entire iPhoto librarary

I will request your thread be moved to the Photos forum

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