Filling up disk space

Hi,
I have removed "keeps original" and yet Adobe Revel Library is still greatly weighing down my computer.
What can I do to remedy the situation?
Thanks,
Rosebud5624

Hi Vanya,
Looking at your account it looks like you purchased from Apple. If that is correct, you'll want to be sure to turn off auto-renewal of your subscription. The following are 2 links that will help you with that:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4098?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
http://helpx.adobe.com/revel/kb/enable-disable-auto-renewal-subscriptions.html
If you are requesting a refund all subscription payments and reimbursements are handled by Apple. Please contact Apple iTunes Store Support:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/
Kind regards,
Glenyse

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Hi frob,
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I'm not sure it's more reliable (since now everything appears to work fine), but you might also get some information if .MobileBackups is involved by running the command in Terminal to show the size of that directly (Finder won't show because only root has permission to look at it).
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When it ran (took a short time) it output the following:
2728912
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The photos were safe in my iphoto library when I returned the following day and cleared some disk space on my hard drive. I then imported the remaining photos and everything looked normal.
Here's where it gets weird. So I was looking at a photo and accidently deleted it from the iphoto library.
How did you do this? using iPhoto or using the finder?
I located the original file and reimported it, however the computer told me that I already had the photo in the library. I looked into help and followed the instructions to drag the rolls onto my desktop and reimport them into iphoto. I did this and consequently lost some 50 very special photos. Now the iphoto library had this giant gap filled with grey !!!'s where the photos were. I looked into the original rolls folders and found a number of the original files were now missing? Something obviously happened from me having moved the files from the originals folder to the desktop. When I returned to iphoto, I recieved a warning that I was running out of diskspace again and some of the recent changes may have been lost!
Again until you have a minimum of 10BG of free space you are risking many additional problems with your total system including iPhoto
I have searched for the files according to their file numbers (from the missing thumbnail) and the files are not coming up on my search. The original files are not in the trash either?
My questions:
1. Is there any way to trace the history of my actions and undo my actions or salvage my files?
No - but you may be able to recover the photos on your camera card using program like media recover - http://www.mediarecover.com/ - the trial version will tell you what is available for recovery
2. The images still appear in my iphoto library thumbnails when scrolling down the screen (briefly before turning to grey !'s). Can I somehow salvage the image from the thumbnails?
no
3. Do I have to find the original files to see the photos again?
Yes - either on your computer or on your camera media card
I have learned to not mess with orignial files in iphoto,
Yes - that is critical - doing so is likely to lose data and possibly photos
never delete when importng,
That is strongly recommended
and always have mucho diskspace when uploading.
Yes - 10GB minimum
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