I need to create more storage space, so I clicked on About this Mac > Storage > Manage > Review Files. It tells me that I am using 100.13 GB for Photos. However, when I click on File Browser, it says that Pictures is using 83.16 GB. What is the reason for this discrepancy? Can I recover the 17 GB discrepancy?
MacBook Air, macOS Sierra (10.12.4)
I couldn't possibly have 15 gb of other images, so that is odd.
there are thousands of image files in the application bundles of the applications for the graphical user interface, for help files, etc. There may be image files in the mail attachments saved on your computer or in your Downloads folder. There may be pictures in your Pages and Keynote documents, in your iMovie Library. If you are using My Photo Stream or iCloud Photo Shraring, there may be more than thousand photos in the local copy of these iCloud items.
If you search your Mac from the Finder, by clicking into the search field of a Finder Window and selecting "Kind Image" you can see all pictures stored somewhere on your Mac. But be very careful not to delete anything from this view. You might damage applications this way by deleting from the "All Images" view.:
With only 128GB of internal storage, consider to move documents to iCloud and use "Optimize Storage" or move large files to a small, portable external drive. iCloud will only work, if you always have access to a fast, reliable, and affordable network. The people, who's old this Mac to you, should have considered how you want to use it, before they recommended such a small internal disk.
I couldn't possibly have 15 gb of other images, so that is odd.
there are thousands of image files in the application bundles of the applications for the graphical user interface, for help files, etc. There may be image files in the mail attachments saved on your computer or in your Downloads folder. There may be pictures in your Pages and Keynote documents, in your iMovie Library. If you are using My Photo Stream or iCloud Photo Shraring, there may be more than thousand photos in the local copy of these iCloud items.
If you search your Mac from the Finder, by clicking into the search field of a Finder Window and selecting "Kind Image" you can see all pictures stored somewhere on your Mac. But be very careful not to delete anything from this view. You might damage applications this way by deleting from the "All Images" view.:
With only 128GB of internal storage, consider to move documents to iCloud and use "Optimize Storage" or move large files to a small, portable external drive. iCloud will only work, if you always have access to a fast, reliable, and affordable network. The people, who's old this Mac to you, should have considered how you want to use it, before they recommended such a small internal disk.
two different things - the fist shows the space used by all images including lots that are not in Photos (and it is also an unreliable reported) adn the finder shows he side of the Photos library - you can not recover the difference since they are measuring two different things using two different methods - how much free storage do you have?
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Thanks for replying. I couldn't possibly have 15 gb of other images, so that is odd. Overall I have only 6gb of space left on my computer. I havery a 128 gb mac air and totally regret buying it. 😐 Not enough storage space at all. I need to buy a new laptop but feeling annoyed at having to spend the money all over again.
check out third party memory upgrades - Other World Computing is a good one for Macs and Mac memory - they can advise you on what you need and the best solution
LN
Discrepancy in storage in Photos vs Pictures
