Huge amounts of space

When I click on my library within iPhoto, it says I have something like 1.8 gigs worth of pictures. But when I use Finder to "get info" on the iPhoto library in my user folder, it shows 7.47 gigs. Why the difference?

Ah ha, the infamous caches. Here are a couple of things you can do to regain some additional real estate on your HD.
1 - run either Cache Out, OnyX or Mac Sweeper to clean out the various cache and archived log files.
2 - run DeLocalizer to remove the unneeded language modules. I saved 900+MB the first time I ran it. It will run under Panther.
Good luck.
OT

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I'm considering migrating my iPhoto library to Aperture, and the one thing that is concerning me the most is the amount of space it takes, particularly thumbnails.
The previews don't seem to be taking that much, but thumbnails do. I haven't done any too-extensive tests but from what I see, the "AP.*" files inside an ".approject" seem to be huge.
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Hi Eric,
The .CFS files located under D:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\Data\PlatformSearchData are files used by Lucene, a text search engine that is used by the Platform Search Service of your Adaptive Processing server for Indexing.
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Under iOS 5, both report over 1.5GB for "Other". By browsing around the phone with iExplorer, it seems that most of this is an enormous album art database file called MediaLibrary-artwork.data in the iTunes_Control\iTunes folder - this alone is over 1.5GB. There are no more than 200 albums on either device, all of which have artwork downloaded from the Apple Store rather than embedded in the files - say 200 x 250kb JPEGs; 50MB in total.
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Ok, so I appreciate the suggestion that it may be a corrupted file. But have you noticed that I am not the only person having this problem? Actually look. It is a valid problem, and I'm not the only one having it. So asking for Apple to fix it really isn't wrong.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=567122
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/27483/why-does-my-iphone-use-so-much-ot her-space-after-upgrade-to-ios-5
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236
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 Cheers, Tom

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