Hard Drive Full (but not full)
Hi All,
I'm not sure I have sufficient technical knowledge to follow other, similar threads on this topic. I'd benefit from a bit of gentler handling, if that's okay!
I have a relatively new MBP with a 500GB hard drive (flash storage). I am good with my back-ups and use Time Machine in conjunction with an external HD and have backed up old video and image files to a 2TB external hard drive.
What is happening continually is that my Hard Drive gets almost completely used up very quickly. I have used OmniDiskSweeper to get a view on the size of files - the largest folder (as you might expect) is the Users folder at just over 100GB. Nothing is else is all that big - so maybe a total usage of 130GB in all.
I think the problem comes from the idea of 'hidden backups'. I recently imported some raw video into iMovie, which I then saved out as a .MOV file and moved off to an external HD, deleting the local copy. If I've read other threads correctly, the MBP holds some of these large files as a snapshot in time of the drive.
However, how can I get rid of these and get back to a relatively clean HD without doing a complete reinstall?
Suggestions are warmly welcomed.
Patrick
Please read this Apple support article on Time machine snapshots.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204015
They are meant to be only temporary and will drop off if space is needed for other data. In that regard, you may ignore them.
Ciao.
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There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
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Are the files lost forever or can i recover them by going to a shop or using a software?Thank you for responding.
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