Does iCloud help me save hard drive space?

my hard drive is always getting too full and this affects performance. Can I use i cloud to store content so I can delete it from my hard drive?

iCloud does not provide general file storage in the manner of MobileMe's iDisk - you would need a third party service to do this. This page examines some options:
http://rfwilmut.net/migrate3
If you are talking about a lot of data, online storage would be very very slow. You might be better off simply buying an external hard disk and moving data (not the System or Documents folder) to it - though you should never only keep data in just one place, either locally or online. Backups are the key to happiness: someone who has only one copy of data is going to lose it sooner or later - a hard disk can fail, equipment can be damaged or stolen, online backups can fail.
Backup, then backup again. One day you'll be so glad you did.

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to save hard drive space, can I put my iMovie projects and clips on an external drive?

Yes.
To preserve your projects, all moves should be done from within iMovie, (not the Finder).
First, the external drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled). FAT32 will not work. You can reformat using Disk Utility if you need to.
When importing video from your camera, you can specify your external drive as the target on the import screen.
For existing projects, you should move using these instructions.
http://help.apple.com/imovie/#move7d66613
There is an error in the instructions where it says to drag the project icon to the icon in the Event Library. You should instead look for your hard drive icon in the Project Library.
You can move events using these instructions.
http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3ac6d42c
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http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3ac6c7c9

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I want to create a movie in iMovie 10 and watch in on Apple TV. What is the best work flow to save hard drive space?

Jim,
Thanks for the advice. I have avoided iMovie Theater because that would soon use all of my free iCloud allowance (although that could be an option). I have been sharing to iTunes at 720p thinking that my picture using Apple TV would be better than Large. I see now that I could use about 30% less hard drive space by using Large instead. Do you think I will experience an annoying difference in picture quality?

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If I download my photos into iPhoto does that use up more hard drive space on my mac?

iPhoto and Lightroom are similar apps - although LR is a far more capable app - and that the price it should be, of course. But the two apps are similar in that they both offer
Photo Management
Non-Destructive Processing
So, essentially, they both play the same part in the workflow.
The procedure would be to
Download the images from the camera into the Photo Manager (regardless of which one you choose)
Review and select in the Manager
Trash the unwanted with the Manager
Process the images - that is, in most cases edit them.
It is at this point - and only this point - that Photoshop might come into play. Both of these apps can act as a 'front-end' for Photoshop - after all, they're the Managers. But in truth, if you're using Lightroom then you very likely do not need Photoshop at all, and for anything that does require layers you can use one of the many - much less expensive - alternatives. But I think the common experience is that with Lightroom (like Aperture) the requirement for the sledgehammer that is Photoshop really fades away.
So pick one horse and ride it. Choose between LR and iPhoto. Use it like it's intended. Don't get involved in other necessary apps. Don't review before bringing the photo into the manager - that's what the manager is for.

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I have a Power Mac G4 that is just about out of hard drive space. Why? I have no idea. I only have about 7 MB left of the 512 MB that came on the machine. I have backed up most pictures, documents, etc... to an external hard drive and have barely anything left on the desk top. Does anyone know what might be working 'behind the scenes' to eat up hard drive space or what I can do to gain any back? I'm not a huge 'techie' so any advice past 'empty the trash' would probably be helpful.
Thanks very much for anything you can do for me.
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I believe you mean GB instead of MB when referring to hard drive size/space.
Look at these links.
Where did my disk space go?
http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=770243
Download & use WhatSize described in this link or Disk Inventory X @ http://www.derlien.com/
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
Amazing Disappearing Drive Space
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/TigerMisc.html
Increase HD Free Space
http://macosx.com/forums/howto-faqs/275191-how-easily-increase-hd-free-space-lap top.html
How to free up my disk space
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
Where Did My Disk Space Go?
http://www.macfixitforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/770243/site_id/ 1
 Cheers, Tom

Storing iPhoto files elsewhere to save hard drive space

The 80 MB hard drive on my iMac is nearly full. The iPhoto Library folder in "Pictures" indicates 26.6MB of images stores. I would like to be able to save some of the original files on CD or DVD to free up critical space and give the hard drive some breathing room again.
1-Can I store just specific folders that I've created, e.g. "Family Visit 4/28-30/2005" (which crosses 3 different days), or must I store only by date?
2-Which files (form which folders in the iPhoto Library) specifically would I copy to CD or DVD?
3-Can these easily be brought back into iPhoto later if I wish to print any of the images or work on them?
4-Are there any other storage tricks I should know?
5-Is there a source for this information from Apple?
6-Or is the answer to simply export as original to CD or DVD?
Thanks. Any help would be very much appreciated.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Rich:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. First how much free space do you have on your HD? It is strongly recommended you keep a minimum of 15% or 10G, which ever is greater, free for system and application swap and cache files.
Using the Share->Burn menu option you can burn rolls or albums of photos to disk in a format that will allow you to mount and view the disk in iPhoto and copy the photos back into the library.
iPhoto has a new capability of just creating aliases of the source files so you can keep the source files on another drive or media and have a smaller library on your boot drive. Here's how I set up my library that way:
Using iPhoto 6 in the Alias Mode
My workflow involves using iPhoto and another image management application, iView MediaPro, on the same source files. Here's how:
I have my source files on a second HD in my own folder system. I use iView MediaPro as my primary image management application.
I have iPhoto set up to use aliases instead of importing the full file into its system. That way my 25,600+ files (27G) are represented by an iPhoto library of only about 1.75G. That will grow depending on the number of edits made in iPhoto. iPhoto never touches the source files. All edits are done on a copy that's created in the Modified folder in the library folder. Any edits done by iView will be visible by iPhoto but only in the edit view or in books, slideshow, calendars. The thumbnail is not updated. Another shortcoming to this method is if a photo is added to an existing source folder it must be manually imported into iPhoto and there moved to the corresponding roll in iPhoto to complete the match. My workflow does not require that. Also if a photo is deleted in iPhoto the source file is not touched.
This method is laptop friendly as you can have your source files on an external and only a small library on the laptop. If the external is dismounted the library is useable in a limited way, i.e. you can view thumbnails, add, move or delete albums, add comments and add keywords (but with some hassle). What you can't do is edit, work with books, calendars, slideshow or any operation which requires moving a thumbnail. Once the external is remounted the library is fully functional again.
So there's more than one way to keep free space on your boot drive.
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The iTunes application itself cannot be installed anywhere other than on the boot drive, but as Katrina says, you can move the content. Her advice is good, but an alternative is to just drag the entire iTunes folder (the entire folder, not just the iTunes Music folder) to your desired location. Then hold down the Shift key while launching iTunes. You'll be given a dialog box where you can select the iTunes library you want to use. Navigate to and select the iTunes folder in it's new location. This has the advantage of allowing you to take the external drive to another computer and have your entire iTunes library available should you wish it.
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Does iCloud let me store photos from my mac or just via photostream? I'm trying to regain some hard drive space...

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Just photostream so far. The only complete local library you can offload so far is your music library from iTunes.

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View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
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