About this mac says that photos are taking up almost 45 gigs of space but my photo library is on an external drive. I've used omni disk sweeper and it doesn't find anything. Any ideas on how i can reclaim all that storage?
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About this mac says that photos are taking up almost 45 gigs of space but my photo library is on an external drive. I've used omni disk sweeper and it doesn't find anything. Any ideas on how i can reclaim all that storage?
Do you have anything in iCloud ? may be it's synching it ?
I prefer OmniDiskSweeper. It will provide a sorted list of what's consuming your space in a more easier to understand format.
If you run it with sudo (As shown below), it will include some system files that it woud not normally have access to scan. That is a more accurate representation of what's consuming your drive.
If you run it with sudo (As shown below), it will include some system files that it woud not normally have access to scan. That is a more accurate representation of what's consuming your drive.
Code:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
About this mac says that photos are taking up almost 45 gigs of space but my photo library is on an external drive. I've used omni disk sweeper and it doesn't find anything. Any ideas on how i can reclaim all that storage?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/about-this-mac-issue.1988661/
Looks like you are in the Sierra beta and others are having this same issue.