IPhoto Preview Folder Twice the Size of Masters Folder

I am trying to back up my computer to a cloud-based server. It is getting hung up on iPhoto each time. The server team is looking at it but the representative noted that my preview folder is twice the size of my masters folder. I have a little over 28,000 photos totaling 492 GB; the Masters folder is ~175 GB; the Preview twice that. Is that normal?

Most Simple Back Up:
Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
Slightly more complex: Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically.
Example of such apps: Chronosync - but there are many others. Search on MacUpdate or the App Store
But note the back up disk must be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
The size of the Preview folder seems odd. Look inside and sort it on size. What's in the biggest folder?

Similar Messages

Copied folder, twice the size.

I'm trying to copy a folder from one internal drive to another. It's about 170GB of video files, but ends up being over 240GB when it's copied. I went through the subfolders, some seem fine while others are twice the size. For instance a subfolder with 6GB of MP4 files, ends up being 13GB. Any ideas on why that would be?
I'm also getting the dreaded error -36 when copying to some of my external drive. Three seem to work fine, while two don't. I would think that the drives might be bad, but one was old and one was new. It was like they had infected each other.
Thanks!

rpfive wrote:
I'm trying to copy a folder from one internal drive to another. It's about 170GB of video files, but ends up being over 240GB when it's copied. I went through the subfolders, some seem fine while others are twice the size. For instance a subfolder with 6GB of MP4 files, ends up being 13GB.
I may be way off base, but if the destination drive is bigger than the source drive, what you're seeing may be explained by the size of the "allocation unit" of the drives. There is a minimum amount of disk space that even the smallest file will occupy. On my 125 GB boot volume that minimum size is 4 KB. Do a Finder "Get Info" of one of the files on the source drive and the same file on the destination drive. Compare the "Size" values of each file (not the values in parentheses).
I'm also getting the dreaded error -36 when copying to some of my external drive.
How are those external drives formatted?

Time Machine on my iMac won't open iPhoto. It goes to desktop screen automatically. When I select User/Picture/Iphoto library it only brings up the preview page with the size of the folder. I can't get into the library to look for lost photos.

Time Machine on my iMac won't open iPhoto. It goes to desktop screen automatically. When I select User/Picture/Iphoto library it only brings up the preview page with the size of the folder. I can't get into the library to look for lost photos.

Thank You. This helps me alot to get into the masters and to see events and photos in a utilitarian way, but it is not as easy as viewing the normal iphoto format to find photos. Can I do something else or did I not do something right to not see normal iphoto in Time Machine ?

Is there a way to display the size of a folder or group of folders in Bridge?

In windows it is easy to click on any folder and see the size of it's contents, whether it is a single folder or contains subfolders. This doesn't seem possible as far as I can see in Bridge. The only way I can see to see the size of a folder is to select all files in the folder and then it will display the size. Seems quite a clunky way or working and is frustrating when you want to see the size of a folder containing sub folders. Strange for a program which is supposed to make managing files easier. However, I'm hoping that there is a way to do this and I've not discovered it yet.
If anyone knows of a way to click on any folder and display it's contents (with or without subfolders) without having to select all files, I would greatly appreciate them sharing it.
Many thanks,
Julie

In the Folders Tab, right click on folder then click Reveal in Explorer. This will open an Explorer window with the folder selected. In Explorer you can right click > Properties or navigate to whatever you want to measure.

Why is Data Size in QT inspector twice the size of the file?

I am not asking this to save space. I am just curious. When playing a dv (captured from camera) clip, I notice that the QT inspector shows data size about twice the size of the dv clip size in file system. Is it because the dv is compressed and QT decompresses?
Actually, on clip in QT shows 22GB which is impossible to fit on a miniDV tape.

You'll notice that a DV Stream file has two tracks (audio and video) of the same size when viewed in QuickTime Movie Inspector or the Movie Properties window of QuickTime Player Pro.
Obviously the audio track shouldn't be the same size as the video track. There are separated from the single stream to allow editing.

Is it possible to display the size of a folder in a cell??

Hi,
i would like to know if there is any way or function to assign to a cell for display for example the size of a folder on the hard drive.....
so whenever the folder size is changing, the cell is updated......
another example, is to display the number of files inside a specific folder......
Any way to do this????
Thanks for your precious help.
Marco

Hi everybody,
i did some step forward, but i'm blocked in a step....
this is the script I build so far:
tell application "Finder"
          if disk "Data" exists then
                    set peso010 to get physical size of folder "010 - Foto" of disk "Data"
          else
                    set peso010 to 0
          end if
          tell application "Numbers"
                    open "/Users/asialimarco/documents/test.numbers"
                    set the value of cell "B2" to peso010
          end tell
end tell
The first portion is getting correctly the size of my folder on external drive, a value when the disk is plugged in, 0 when is not.
The second portion is where i get an error. It does open Numbers, it does open my file, it selects (the blue square) the right cell, but doesn't write on it anything. The Apples script returns an error which is:
error "Numbers founds an error: Can't set cell \"B2\" at 0." number -10006 from cell "B2"
I tried many times by also setting the value of the variable manually, but the error is always the same.
What I'm missing? why i can't write on that cell (or anyother), with the on-line documentation it semas i need to open the file with write permissions, but i can't figure out how to do that.
Anyone can help me?
Thanks to all of you.

How to find the Size of a Folder &also list the sub folder and files in it

In my program I want to know the size of a folder . The input given is the path of the folder and the ouptut should be the list of files and subfolders with their size. What is the function we have to use for this?
Thank you

class: file
method: listFiles() - list all files of the dir referenced by the file object
method: length() - give the size of the file referenced by the file object ; you have to call this method on all file of the dir to make the sum and have the dir size

Home page i cons mail, i pod, messages etc are twice the size as normal. don't know how this happen and can't fix it, help!

My I phone 4 G home page i cons are twice the size as normal (mail, messages, ipod) etc.
Don't know how this happened and can't fix it help.

Double tap with THREE fingers to turn zoom off. Then go into: Settings>General>Accessibility and turn it off for good.

FCP file sizes are twice the size of Quicktime's - any advantage to FCP?

When I capture footage from my Canon HV40 MiniDV using FCP, the file sizes are almost twice the size as when I capture using Quicktime's Device Native setting. Is there any advantage to capturing with FCP, as the quality seems the same in QT? Or is there a way to reduce the file size being captured in FCP?
I'd like to be able to capture in FCP because if there is a dropped frame in the recording, Quicktime stops recording, whereas FCP keeps going and starts a new file. But the larger file size in FCP puts me off.

Not all codecs are editable...meaning, not all work in an editing application. I'm not sure what "device native" captures as in QT. Does it say in GET INFO? But FCP captures HDV and DV native, but in a native format that it can work with. HDV comes in as HDV...Dv as DV.
I wouldn't trust what QT is capturing as DEVICE NATIVE. And 13GB/hour of footage is not that much. That's the lowest data rate format out there.
Shane

FCE file sizes are twice the size of Quicktime's - any advantage to FCE?

When I capture footage from my Canon HV40 MiniDV using FCE, the file sizes are almost twice the size as when I capture using Quicktime's Device Native setting. Is there any advantage to capturing with FCE, as the quality seems the same? Or is there a way to reduce the file size being captured in FCE?
I'd like to be able to capture in FCE because if there is a dropped frame in the recording, Quicktime stops recording, whereas FCE keeps going and starts a new file. But the larger file size in FCE puts me off.

There is no difference in the two files. They are both DV Stream (.dv).
If you look in the Movie Properties window you'll notice that both tracks (audio and video) have the same file size.
Obviously, this can't mean that the audio track is really as large as the video track in data size. It means that the only way QuickTime can "separate" the stream into two editable tracks is to duplicate them (but ignore the video playback of the audio track portion).
I don't use Final Cut but I would suspect it might make two files (audio and video) instead of a single file made by QuickTime Player Pro.
Confusing, isn't it?

Photoshop files twice the size they actually are & Crashes for no reason (CS5 on OS X Yosemite)

After upgrading to Yosemite, my adobe products didn't work. I upgraded some java plugins and was able to solve the problem on both of my computers. Now, about a month later, my Photoshop design files are twice the size of data Photoshop says they are. I do alot of graphic design at 300 dpi, so I understand the size these files should be, and a file that used to be 25 MB is not like 127 MB for no reason. And when trying to add an irregular paper size, Photoshop has started crashing due to NSInvalidArgumentException:
Anyone have ideas to fix this issue? I can't find anything about this online. Thank you to anyone who can shed some light on this!

First of all: You rock for responding so quickly! Thank you.
So your thought is, I should wait it out and Apple will probably take care of the issue? I do "send report" when the crash happens.
Do you think there is a save option I'm hitting (and don't know) causing the files to be so big as .psd? Even when their flattened, I can't get the sizes down to normal. I haven't changed what I'm doing, and all of the sudden each design file is ending up in the hundreds of MBs instead of around 25MB or less.
I really appreciate your expertise on this!

How do I set a different folder than the Windows MyDocuments/Downloads folder? I do not use 'My Documents' at all, all my saved files go to other hard drives for storage, and I do not want to bother with the My Docs route. I used to have downloads set to

I want to set a different folder from the My Documents/Downloads folder for Firefox to put everything I download, like I used to have it. I recently rebuilt my computer and reinstalled everything from WinXP to security software to Firefox, and I cannot find any options anywhere to set a different folder like I used to have it... with the same software, other than it being a newer iteration of Ff. So tell me, am I losing my mind so bad that I just can't remember how I did it before, or have things changed so much that what I want is no longer possible? Please, someone tell me how to set it to do what I want, I can't stand to have what I do on my computer dictated by programmers who only think that they know what people want. If that sounds a little angry, I apologize with the disclaimer that I suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and therefore cannot handle frustration... and this kind of thing frustrates me to the point of rage.

Tools > Options - General tab = Downloads
Set your preferences there.

A phantom folder with the name of a folder that held photos has appeared in my finders places list. I can't choose it to delete it. it won't move. It can't be found in a search. How can I choose it and delete it?

a phantom folder with the name of a folder that held photos has appeared in my finders>places list. I can't choose it to delete it. it won't move. It can't be found in a search. How can I choose it and delete it?

Can you drag it off holding down the CMD key?
Do a search for it with EasyFind (try different settings in "Operator")
http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware/

Previous saved bookmarks.html files were almost twice the size. If I rely on this much smaller folder for saving my I may lose bookmark data. Can someone explain why my folder is now suddenly so much smaller?

Since I upgraded to 3.6.3 my bookmarks folder has become nearly half the size upon exporting it in html format. I normally refresh my working copy of Mozilla by saving the bookmarks and then erasing all aspects of Firefox and starting over from scratch. I am concerned that if I rely upon this smaller folder I may be losing data. Can someone tell me what is happening here? It could be that this is just an improvement in Firefox but I do not know how to test the waters to see if all my data is saved.

Are you comparing the size of the bookmarks.html file that is exported from Firefox 3.6.3 to a bookmarks.html file that was exported from earlier versions of Firefox?
Really shouldn't be a difference, there hasn't been a change to Firefox regarding the bookmarks.html file in years.

How to define the size of private folder in Easy DMS?

Hi,
I have to ristrict the user to keep the data in private folder after the maximum limit
please help me how to define the private folder size in easy DMS.
after the limit user is not able to keep data in private folder.

Hi,
This can be done in SAP Customization / SPRO
Pl. check :
Cross-Application Components>Document Management>Control Data>Define Document types
Here the size limit can be defined.
Also check : http://scn.sap.com/community/plm/document-management/blog/2014/06/20/how-to-create-dir-and-document-type-in-dms
Hope this helps
Regards,
Remi

IPhoto Preview Folder Twice the Size of Masters Folder

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for