Trashing photos still takes up hard drive space

I am throwing away photos from iPhoto to reduce the amount of storage needed (I have them backed up). I have 7 gigs of photos left in iPhoto acording to the information window at the bottom left of iPhoto window. The problem is that I still have about 45 gigs of photos in my "Pictures" folder.

iPhoto has its own method of managing photos.
You are better off backing up what you need as a whole Pictures folder elsewhere than trying to trash photos.

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Does hibernation take any hard drive space?

Hi.
I am the proud owner of a brand new Toshiba I received for Christmas. I am asking this because last night my battery was running out of power and then my mom called me to the living room and eventually the battery ran out and the computer hibernated. When I turned it back on it went back to what I was doing when I left the room, working on my manuscript on Word. I am wondering if this will take up any hard drive space. That way I will know not to let it hibernate again and to be sure to plug the thing in before I leave the room.
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In hibernation, data from RAM is dumped to the hard drive. Your hib file (it's a hidden system file usually located on C: as hiberfil.sys) will be equivalent to the amount of RAM you have on your computer. The hib file continually exists, in order to be ready to absorb your RAM upon hibernation. It does not increase or decrease in size over time. The drive wear is insignificant. It's basically a way to have your precise computer state perfectly conserved (as with sleep), but without draining battery or AC power (unlike sleep).
If you don't plan on using Hibernation I believe you can turn it off and free up the disk space - Look Control Panel / Power Options / Advanced Power Settings

Does the desktop creative cloud folder take up hard drive space?

I know this is proabaly a stupid question but does the creative cloud file folder use hard drive space. So in other words, I place a 24MB picture in that Creative Cloud File folder to sync with my cloud files and other devices. Is it taking up 24MB of space on my macbook air? For some reason my brain is not processing this. There must be some advantage to storage and some type of preview instead of fully storing the file on my local computer but just checking to see how this works. Thanks.

It's a folder on your HD. And just like any other folder on your HD it occupies space. The more content you have inside it, the more space it takes.
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6+ minutes takes all hard drive space

If i import 5 minutes of video all is well. If I import 6+ then all the free hard drive space is used and i get an out of memory error. Any suggestions

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Can I delete photo to create more hard drive space as I just backed them to the iCloud ? Thanks

I just purchased 20gb of iCloud to create more space on my iPad. Is it safe to delete my photos from the hair drive now? Once deleted how can I view them from the iCloud
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HT4914 Do songs on Match take up hard drive space on devices?

Want to know before I purchase.

Apple's figure for how many songs can be stored on an iPod are based on a song of four minutes in length and encoded (imported) into iTunes at 128kbps AAC format. If your songs are in another format, they could be taking up more space.
Depending on the music you listen to, each song may be more than four minutes (not unusual in this day and age), so simply adding the extra time of each track together will reduce the number of songs you can store. If you import the songs at the higher AAC rate (which is 256Kbps), that halves the number of songs your iPod can store - at a stroke!
So, first of all, what format and bit rate are your songs in? If you've imported them from a variety of sources, they may be in several different formats, so you need to check several songs from different albums before deciding that they are all the same.
To find the bit rate for a song, select it in iTunes and choose File/Get Info/Summary. On that tab, look for the following (my example song in MP3 format):
Kind: MPEG audio file
Format: MPEG 1, Layer 3
Size: 4.3 MB
Bit Rate: 128kbps
and that's for a song of 4 minutes 35 seconds.
One more thing you should consider. If you're buying a Touch (as opposed to a Nano for instance), and your music collection is (let's say) 5GB, you may soon run out of space on an 8GB iPod if you start adding Apps to your Touch. Plus, if you buy any more music on top of what you already have, once again, you may run out of space. So if you're already worried about space on an 8GB Touch, it's probably too small.
Here's another example from my collection, this time in iTunes AAC format:
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Profile: Low Complexity
Size: 7.2 MB
Bit Rate: 256kbps
and that's for a song of 4 minutes 36 seconds.
So, one second longer, in Apple's AAC format, and also at twice the bit rate, but less than twice the size (7.2 MB).

Out of Hard Drive space with Mavericks

This new library system with Mavericks and FC 10.1.3 is confusing. I end up with too many events that take up hard drive space.
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G

Your application must be in the Applications folder, but your libraries can and indeed *should* be in an external drive. They can be stored anywhere, no need to put them in special designated folders as before.
The library system actually makes managing your stuff extremely easy. A library is a single document, so you can simply move it in the Finder (when FCP X is not running).
You can have as many or as few libraries as you want, copy them, move them, etc. You don't have to have everything active at once in FCP X. Open and close libraries as needed (whereas before, all events on a given drive were loaded, you can now just open a single library in a disk containing dozens of them).
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Iphoto: How to safely delete or move photos. I have over 7000 photos. When I deleted some, I found that the event still shows up with a blank frame. Can I move some photos to an external hard drive but leave the pointer in iphoto?

iphoto: How to safely delete or move photos. I have over 7000 photos. I would really like to move tsome of the older photos to an external hard drive. (They are backed up in Time Machine, but I like the immediacy of having them available.) So question 1 - is it possible to split the iphoto library so that the directory tree points to an external drive in some cases? And if that doesn't work--I am willing to export and delete some of these photos. However, an earlier delete left me with events that have a name in the event folder, but no photos. Question 2 -- How do I properly delete photos so that all references disappear?
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Warning: Time Machine is not an Archiving application. It keeps rolling back ups. That means if you delete something from the source Mac it will eventually be also deleted from Time Machine. How long that takes depends on the amount of disk space TM has. So, remember, backing up in Time Machine is not the same as Archiving.
For the blank thumbnails: This can happen if you try delete too many photos at one go. Experienced users suggest you should delete in batches of 100 or so.
Yes you can split the Library, where some of the Masters are stored locally and some on an external disk, but really, you don't want to do that. iPhoto's file management tools are limited at best, and if the path to the files changes then you could find yourself repairing the links to the files - all of them, one by one.
Better: Have your entire Library on an External Drive.
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
If you want to have a smaller library on your internal disk:
Here's one way to do what you want:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
Now you have two full versions of the Library.
3. On the Internal library, trash the Events you don't want there
Now you have a full copy of the Library on the External and a smaller subset on the Internal
Some Notes:
As a general rule: when deleting photos do them in batches of about 100 at a time. iPhoto can baulk at trashing large numbers at one go.
You can choose which Library to open: Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
You can keep the Library on the external updated with new imports using iPhoto Library Manager
Regards
TD

How do I save just my photos to an external hard drive and still access them in iphoto

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This is where iTunes stores backups for different operating systems: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946
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How do I delete Photo Stream photos that are taking up hard drive space in my Masters folder, but not actually appearing in any event, or on the interface at all?

A couple months ago, I activated photo stream using my apple ID. I was under the impression that all the photos uploaded to my photo stream would only use server space on icloud and wouldn't actually utilize disk space, or at the most, the option was available to only download specific photos to my hard drive. My hope was that I could upload the photos to a specific drive, and view the uploaded thumbs or low-res comps on any device as a reference.
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If the files are loose inside the iPhoto library package here's one way to get them out:
1 - open your library, select all of the photos in the library and add a unique keyword, XXXX, to all of them.
2 - Rebuild the library with iPhoto Library Manager as follows:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 - download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.>Click on the Add Library button,
2 - select the library you want to add from those in the selection window.
3 - make sure that in the rebuild window the checkbox "Scavange orphaned photos" is checked.
4 - now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the Library ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
5 - in the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed. Click on the Create button.
Note 1: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost.
Note 2: Your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.
3 - open the library, create a smart album with the criterial "Keyword is not XXXX".
4 - the smart album will include those photos that were not visible in your original library. Select them and use the key combination of Command+Option+Delete to move them to the iPhoto Trash bin.
5 - empty the iPhoto Trash bin via the iPhoto ➙ Empty iPhoto Trash Bin menu option.
6 - empty the Trash bin in the Dock to remove the files from your hard drive completely.
Be sure to read Note 1 above. You can use the new library without your books, slideshow, etc. and it will not contain those errant files. Of course delete the original library if the new one is satisfactory.

If i download my photos into iPhoto does that use up more hard drive space?

If I download my photos into iPhoto does that use up more hard drive space on my mac?

iPhoto and Lightroom are similar apps - although LR is a far more capable app - and that the price it should be, of course. But the two apps are similar in that they both offer
Photo Management
Non-Destructive Processing
So, essentially, they both play the same part in the workflow.
The procedure would be to
Download the images from the camera into the Photo Manager (regardless of which one you choose)
Review and select in the Manager
Trash the unwanted with the Manager
Process the images - that is, in most cases edit them.
It is at this point - and only this point - that Photoshop might come into play. Both of these apps can act as a 'front-end' for Photoshop - after all, they're the Managers. But in truth, if you're using Lightroom then you very likely do not need Photoshop at all, and for anything that does require layers you can use one of the many - much less expensive - alternatives. But I think the common experience is that with Lightroom (like Aperture) the requirement for the sledgehammer that is Photoshop really fades away.
So pick one horse and ride it. Choose between LR and iPhoto. Use it like it's intended. Don't get involved in other necessary apps. Don't review before bringing the photo into the manager - that's what the manager is for.

Do you have any ideas why Motion 5 would run slow on a computer? I have an Imac with 8Gigs of ram, and plenty of hard drive space, but it still gives me the beach ball when I add a few lights and effects. I'm at the end of my rope.

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Explore the training tutorials available by Mark Spencer. You will get an idea of how his super powerful machine reacts with the software.
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How can I store photos on an external hard drive and still manage w IPhoto?

The hard drive on my MacBook is almost full and I want to move my photos to an external hard drive. Can I do this and still manage and organize the photos using I Photo? I can export the photos, but when I do I lose the organization (Events, Albums, etc.) that are in I Photo. With my new DSLR camera the photos (JPEGS) are really big and I am quickly running out of storage on the MacBook. Thanks in advance for you help.
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Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
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HT201250 If time machine puts all of my photos onto my external hard drive using time machine, can I then delete the photos from my computer put view them again from the external hard drive? Basically, can I free up space on my mac but not lose years of p

If time machine puts all of my photos onto my external hard drive using time machine, can I then delete the photos from my computer but view them again from the external hard drive? Basically, can I free up space on my mac but not lose years of photos?

To add to Niel's comment bear in mind that if you have a backup copy on an external HD and later delete the orignals on your Mac HD you will then only have one copy - so no backup.
If the pictures are precious you should have at least two copies, and ideally another copy kept off site,

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