![]() ![]() A window will pop up with a number, which in my Mac’s case was over 236GB between a number of different photo libraries - Apple’s Photo Booth, Aperture, iPhoto, and Photos, just to name a few. The simplest technique is to open a Finder window and right-click the Pictures folder under Favorites, choosing Get Info. If you’re not sure just how much space your photo collection is consuming on your Mac, there are two ways to figure it out. I’ve used both apps, as well as many others, and can help you choose the one that’s best for your needs… That’s an incredible amount of wasted space attributable to duplicates, so it’s no surprise that a $1 utility called Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro has recently become the #1 paid Mac App Store app, while a superior alternative called PhotoSweeper ($10) is in the top 50. After installing OS X 10.10.3, the new Photos app converted my 90GB Aperture library into a 126GB Photos library, and left both on my hard drive. Particularly after installing OS X 10.10.3 with Apple’s new Photos app, you might be surprised to learn that you’ve lost a lot of hard drive space, and that there are suddenly tons of duplicate photos on your Mac. Today’s How-To is focused on something very specific but with a lot of optimization potential: trimming down your Mac’s photo library. Brilliant.I’ve focused a lot over the last few months on helping readers to speed up and optimize Apple’s Macs - everything from adding RAM to recovering hard drive space and upgrading old hard drives to faster SSDs. The size limit is a generous 4 gigabytes. You don’t need to create an account or anything. ![]() Within ten minutes, tell the intended recipient to open a browser and punch in the six-digit code. To go from a phone to a computer: Download the (free) app, pick the file, and hit Send. How do I send a huge file to someone? Or to my laptop? I don’t want to upgrade my Cloud plan. Because, unless tech companies find a profitable way to lighten your digital load, you’ll have to take care of it yourself. I’m favoriting the ones to send to Nations Photo Lab (less than $60 for a framed 8x10). And now, with a clean work space, I’ve been teaching myself to edit. I was down to 12,300, about 46 gigabytes, just over half what I started with. Flickr, which used to be one of the best free photo backups on the Cloud, just changed its rules.) This way, even if two of them start charging for storage, or close up shop, I still have a backup of those photos. Once Apple Photos on my iPhone was all updated, I downloaded Google Photos (free and unlimited, but compresses your images) and Amazon's Prime Photos (free for Prime members, but limited storage for videos). Yes, they make more money the more storage you use, but accidentally deleting a customer's photos would look really bad.Īpple is big enough that I don't fear Photos or iCloud vanishing or changing its conditions anytime soon, but it's still wise to use good backup practices and use more than one Cloud photo backup. “We’ve had a lot of requests for that,” they all said. I asked Apple, Adobe, and Google whether their software could delete them. The film photos inexplicably dated to the 19th century are easy to fix by correcting the time stamp. If you're like me, you'll end up with an ugly mountain of photos. Speaking of which, paying $2.99 per month for a bigger iCloud plan (200 gigs)? Worth it. I can open Photos on my iPhone X, delete a few from last weekend, and know that it will free up space on my iCloud. And, as with almost every Apple product I’ve owned, it just works. Photos makes it easy to correct time stamps, useful for old film photos I'd uploaded that didn't have dates. It saves everything to iCloud at full resolution, including RAW photos I take on my Olympus PEN-F. Over the last few years, Apple has taken it from acceptable to fantastic. I chose Apple’s Photos as my starting point. Ever talk to someone who lost their phone and didn’t have it saved somewhere? ![]()
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