Freeing up space on Mac HD

treeman

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In order to free up space on my imac hard drive, I've decided not to store any images on it, and keep them all on External HD's.
So if I just delete the images from the imac by putting them in the trash, will that actually free up space, or do I have to do something else?

Vaguely recall reading something about the trash does not actually remove them :shrug:
 
Also depends if you are using iPhoto, as that will also have a copy of the images in its own library as well and has its own trash can that should empty.
 
How much space do you need on the imac? Unless it's a small hard drive would not have expected photos to have used up that much space unless we're talking thousands of raw files?
 
Mark

I store all my images on external drives, It's amazing how fast they can fill up especially when using RAW. Opt for a FW800 drive if you can. A lot faster than USB, and you can daisy change the drives.

If you need more space have a look at removing a lot of the foreign languages. That can save a few Gb's
 
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