Iphoto edits - delete originals ?

Hi,
When editing photo's in iPhoto, the originals are by default saved as well. As a result, the SDD on my MacBook Pro is running almost full.
Is there a way to avoid originals from being saved after edits were made ?
I noticed similar question on the forum dating back to 2008, response back then was to add disk storage space. Since I am working on internal storage on my MBP that is not really an option ...
Alternatively, are there ways to script Mountain Lion to select and delete all originals that have been edited ?
Thanks

No, not in the current iPhoto version. If you remove the original image files from the library, you will see this dreaded warning - iPhoto needs the original image files to create new versions when editing.
The older posts you see, are referring to older versions of iPhoto, where iPhoto used the last edited version to add further edits. Then you could remove the originals, if you were sure, that you never would want to revert to the original.
If your SSD drive is small, and your iPhoto Library growing quickly I'd move the library to a fast external drive, or create a set of smaller iPhoto libraries and keep only the most current images on the internal volume.
Regards
Léonie

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