Moving iphoto and imovie libraries to free up space

Hi All,
I'm trying to free up hard drive space on my '09 MacBook Pro by moving my iphoto and imovie libraries - approx 110GB - to an external hard drive. I've done this successfully and emptied the trash but this has only freed up approx 25GB of space.
Is there something else I should be doing to free up the the whole 110GB? Any help is appreciated!
PS. Using version 10.9.3

When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.

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