Removing iTunes Movies to gain more space

I just removed my iTunes movies because the HD was showing 479GB used of 500GB to gain more HD space. After turning off my MacBook Pro and restarting, the storage amount shows the same as before. Is there a way to reset the storge reading?

Thank you for your help. Found hidden folder where duplicates of the movies were being stored. Will delete and fix problem.

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You need 4.93 GB of available space. I cannot download OS X Mavericks for I obtain the following answer: Remove items from your startup disk to increase available space. How do I know what items I should remove in order to make more space available? Thanks.

You should never, EVER let a conputer hard drive get completely full, EVER!
With Macs and OS X, you shouldn't let the hard drive get below 15 GBs or less of free data space.
If it does, it's time for some hard drive housecleaning.
Follow some of my tips for cleaning out, deleting and archiving data from your Mac's internal hard drive.
Have you emptied your Mac's Trash icon in the Dock?
If you use iPhoto, iPhoto has its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.
If you store images in other locations other than iPhoto, then you will have to weed through these to determine what to archive and what to delete.
If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive to disc, flash drives or external hard drive, older emails you want to save.
Look through your other Mailboxes and other Mail categories to see If there is other mail you can archive and/or delete.
Other things you can do to gain space.
Once you have around 15 GBs regained, do a search, download and install OmniDisk Sweeper.
This app will help you locate files that you can move/archive and/or delete from your system.
STAY AWAY FROM DELETING ANY FILES FROM OS X SYSTEM FOLDER!
Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
Again, archive to disc, flash drives, ext. hard drives or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
Look in your Applications folder, if you have applications you haven't used in a long time, if the app doesn't have a dedicated uninstaller, then you can simply drag it into the OS X Trash icon. IF the application has an uninstaller app, then use it to completely delete the app from your Mac.
Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
When you install and launch it, let it do its initial automatic tests, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run the maintenance tabs that let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
Good Luck!

How do i remove old backups to clear more space

im am trying to update my ipad to iOS5 and after 45 mins to an hour i get a message saying the backup is too large. ive deleted apps, videos, movies, music from my ipad so the backup is small... but to no avail.
here is a pic of the message.. which ties it to time machine.
anyone know how to remove old backups to clear more space?
any help would be appreciated.
thanks!

This is the MacBook Pro forums. You want the iPad forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ipad

HT4972 i want to update my software version to 6.1.3. but my c drive runs out of memory and i cannot upgrade it at the end, but having to delete the files and gain more space for the computer to operate... plz help me :(

i want to update my software version to 6.1.3.. but i have never updated this before and this is my first time.. im having 20 GB apps and music in my ipod. so when i click 'update and download' tab it starts downloading the new version and upgrading,... but afetr some time it says im having a very low memory in c drive and i would have to stop the upgrading...
can i use my external hard to save this download and upgrading files without using my c drive? plz give me a solution as im only having only 7GB of space left in the C drive

I would rather you delete/move other files to the external HD rather than downloading the update file to the external HD.
First try going here and delete any update files to regain C drive space.
IPSW file location for Mac and Windows
Also, make sure that you have emptied your computer's recycle bin
You can try the manual update/restore method included here and download the file to the external HD

Movie using much more space than file size

Hello. I published a movie in imovie to the media gallery in HD. It is a long video, so I knew it would take up a lot of space. It is listed as 5 GB in my imovie project folder. However, when I "show package contents" of the movie, the actual size of the 720 movie is only 1.3 gb. All of the other folders listed in the contents are just a few MB. Any idea why this is using 5gb of not only my hard drive, but of my Mobile Me space, when it seems like the video should only be using 1.5 GB.
You can see the video here, but obviously it takes some time to buffer.
Thanks.Hello. I published a movie in imovie to the media gallery in HD. It is a long video, so I knew it would take up a lot of space. It is listed as 5 GB in my imovie project folder. However, when I "show package contents" of the movie, the actual size of the 720 movie is only 1.3 gb. All of the other folders listed in the contents are just a few MB. Any idea why this is using 5gb of not only my hard drive, but of my Mobile Me space, when it seems like the video should only be using 1.5 GB.
You can see the video here, but obviously it takes some time to buffer.
Thanks.
http://web.me.com/andysinger1/ClassicVideo/MacabbiGames2010.html

I am not using mobile me, because I designed a website specifically to show my videos, and this way I can send out one page at a time without people having access to the entire gallery.
I would rather not compress the videos, as wouldn't this take some quality away.All I did was choose the "large" option on iweb
But the strange part is, why is the video listed as 5GB in size, but when I open up the contents (show file contents", I see that the actual movie is only 1-2 GB in size?
Thanks

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Hello. I published a movie in imovie to the media gallery in HD. It is a long video, so I knew it would take up a lot of space. It is listed as 5 GB in my imovie project folder. However, when I "show package contents" of the movie, the actual size of the 720 movie is only 1.3 gb. All of the other folders listed in the contents are just a few MB. Any idea why this is using 5gb of not only my hard drive, but of my Mobile Me space, when it seems like the video should only be using 1.5 GB.
You can see the video here, but obviously it takes some time to buffer.
Thanks.
http://web.me.com/andysinger1/ClassicVideo/AJ_E_onslide.html

http://web.me.com/andysinger1/ClassicVideo/Media/Jabob%2012%20bday-720p.mov
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How do I clear up Temp files from Photoshop to gain more space in my HD?

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"I would suggest reporting back before deleting anything, unless you really know what it is."
I am going to be back in here shortly after using OmniDiskSweeper. I just have a one month old infant on my lap who needs attention, that's why.
Yes, I really wouldn't know what files are to be deleted safely. OmniSweeper doesn't tell me that. But at least I know what is taking so much big space in my HD, what program I can survive without it so I can sort it out which to delete or not.

How to delete photos in order to gain more space

hi everyone,
i know how to delete photos and vidéos, but the avalaible space does not change.
is there a way to gain space?
Thank you

salientgreen is right. But my suggestion is that you'd better first transfer these data to your computer to have a backup and then delete them to free up space.
By the way, you can open Settings and navigate to General > Usage to get an idea of your storage consumption. Music, videos, and photos might be the biggest offender.

Is it possible to gain more space than the files deleted on a mac?

I am on a macbook pro running 10.5.8
Basically my mac reported about 70MB of hard drive space left when it stop me from downloading a app so I backup some files to a external drive before deleting it. All was fine until I realized that my mac reported about 15GB of free space but my backup only show around 10GB. Thinking back, I should have match the file size beforehand but I am Pretty Sure all the files were on the backup before I deleted it but since the math does not add up, I am now double guessing myself that maybe i deleted something else that was not meant to be.
So is it possible that the mac also deleted some hidden files that counted toward that extra 5GB or maybe somehow those 5GB was just unaccounted for like some sort of glitch until I emptied the trash? The feeling of uncertainty has been stressing me out and the events leading to me pressing the emptied trash button keep replaying in my head to find a reasoning behind it. I want to just trust myself but the extra free space bothers me. Hopefully, it is not because of the external drive failing to copied all the files.
As far as I know, the mac does not keep a log of what or when files were deleted but it would have been something useful to have.
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I think you need to take a philosophical view: Your computer is working,you mave more storage space, enough to do your download. Whatever is deleted is deleted, and you haven't missed it so maybe it wasn't that important - if it was there at all.

My computer space is full and i want to remove some of my itunes movies from my computer but i dont want to loose them completely how do i make it so i can find them under my purchased on icloud?

My computer space is full and i want to remove some of my itunes movies/ t.v shows from my computer but i dont want to loose them completely how do i make it so i can find them under my purchased on icloud?

You can't do that. iCloud does function that way.
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My iPad will not let me download an iTunes movie due to lack of space but I purchased more space and it still won't work

My iPad will not let me download an iTunes movie due to lack of space but I purchased more space and it still won't work

As stated above - purchasing more space in iCloud has nothing to do with this. You do not have enough space left on the iPad for the movie to download, you need to delete content on the device itself.
You may want to transfer purchases to iTunes and then delete some content on the device to make room.
Transfer purchases.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
This article explains how to delete content from the device
http://knowledgebase.pearsonschool.com/kmp/public_kbase.php?action=showEntry&dat a=4408
Do not delete any important content without backing up, transferring purchases or transferring files to your computer.

How to remove remnants of a failed iTunes movie download?

Hi, please let me summarize my recent experience with an iTunes movie rental. At this point, I mainly want to know how to regain the space on my iPad. The whole disgrace of why the download was slow, why iTunes on my mac did not know about the rental initiated on my iPad (so I had to buy it again), or the fact that after the failed download iOS seems to have left a huge blob on my iPad "forever" stands here to flag this issue for fellow users and Apple.
Let's start with the issue that would help me solve the situation as things stand now: Now I have the movie downloaded to my mac's iTunes, finally, but now I cannot sync it to the iPad, as the latter has no free space --- as the failed download of the movie there left there a large "file", which I cannot remove. The file is not seen by the iPad's iTunes Store or Movies apps (there I deleted what I could), I closed both apps specifically, I restarted and synced the iPad multiple times, but the free space is not recovered.
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Not even to mention that iTunes on my mac did not know about my rental on the iPad. So instead of the promised "seamless" continuiation of the movie on the MacBook (which I hoped will have a[n even] better connection to the iTunes Store, partly because of its better antenna --- it did not), I had to pay up again, restart the download, and still see it only trickling down.
The whole problem started with the download speed being unacceptable. I checked my downstream bandwidth, which was 16 MB/s. Then offering me to download the movie in 5 hours or so is more than disappointing.
Funnily enough, in the end now my mac's iTunes realized that there were a purchase on my iPad, and restarted the "original" download. So now I have two 4.5 GB copies of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy on my mac! What a waste of space and bandwidth. But of course, iTunes keep track of me having started "watching" one of them, so that will soon expire. Pfff.
What a disgrace this is. Google Play, Amazon Instant, Netflix must be gleaming. I only tried iTunes for the 1080p experience on my expensive new iPad.

And there was more. I had to re-rent the movie on Google Play and finish it there, because the iPad won't play its downloaded fragment, nor did my mac's iTunes, which already downloaded two copies of "Happy" and three copies of the twice-rented Tinker, Tailor..., would show ANY of that under Rentals nor allow copying ANY to the iPad during syncing (though the movies at least showed up there, see the note three steps above this).
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And the iPad still have a huge chunk of "Tinker, Tailor..." lingering on somewhere in the non-transparent file system...
At least the iTunes support guys ("Express" Lane after 24 hours, though over a weekend) were nice in their email, and I got my money back. Now I only need my time, sanity and storage space back.

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Analysis: Some of you may think the Other on your iPhone is the pure OS taken space or Safari, email temporary data. But that’s not the complete answer.
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HT204370 If I delete a movie to gain space on my computer, is it lost ?

If I delete a movie to gain space on my computer, is it lost ?

Depending upon what country that you are in, and which film studio that it's from (not all studios allow re-downloading), then you might be able to re-download it in the future via the Purchased link under Quick Links on the right-hand side of the iTunes store home page on your computer's iTunes. But you are better taking your own backup copy of it (e.g. copy it to an external drive), as even if you can currently re-download it there is no guarantee that you will be able to do so in the future (content providers occasionally remove their items from the store).

Removing iTunes Movies to gain more space

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