Help needed freeing up storage after iPhoto transfer

Hello All,
I've been trying to research this, but am not having much luck. Obviously I'm on a Macbook Air, I had about 22GBs of photos in my iPhoto library. I moved the library to a harddrive to help free up memory, which was fine. I deleted the old file on the machine, but when I go to "About this mac" to check and see the reduction marked "photos" on the bar graph, it still reads the same size library. I have emptied the trash and have also restarted. I know I pulled the iphoto library from the correct place, I just don't know why the storage still reads the 22GB usage. Any suggestions?

The "storage" tab found in About This Mac does not provide an accurate status for how much space you have available. I have never been able to understand the time lags between its being updated and then there are those mysterious Time Machine "backup" snapshots which must serve some useful purpose but they make the "storage" tab not very useful when you have a SSD and want to know exactly what space is left.
The only way to see exactly what space you are using and have left is to select your Macintosh HD and do Get Info. That tells you what you have, and any time lag there can be resolved by logging out and back in. If you deleted 22 GB of files, you should see 22 GB more in space available when doing Get Info, assuming that you emptied the Trash.
I sugest you also download OmniDiskSweeper (free) or WhatSize (small fee) to find out where your space is being used.

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