I recently got a message on my macbook pro saying my startup disk is full and I need to clear some room.

I deleted a lot of random files, but it hardly freed up any room. The real problem is pictures... I have 10's of thousands.

I have 6,460 pictures in my iPhoto Library, which I would prefer to keep there if possible. However, if I go to Finder -> all images, there are over 10,000. They seem to be all the photos that are in my iPhoto library, but there are 2-3 of each picture, just different sizes.

Can I just delete all the pictures from the "all images" section of the finder to free up a ton of space, and still keep the pictures (one of each) in my iPhoto?

Sorry for what might be a stupid question.
Thanks!

 

Lolham

 

Do you comment on everything?

 

I would get an external Hard drive, that way you can keep the pics and free up space as well. I'm not sure but I think your iPhoto is linked to a folder and if you delete "all Images" on the finder it will erase them as well.

 

whu ruu

 

copy you iphoto library to an external hd, then delete all the photos. this is assuming that you have everything you want in iphoto. i personally keep all my photo separately and only link them to iphoto.

 

First, if you haven't rebooted the machine in a while, do that. It'll delete a lot of temporary files and free up some space.

So far as your photos are concerned, if you need to keep them actively indexed in iPhoto, consider getting a bigger disk or an external. Otherwise, you can archive your old photos by creating a compressed disk image and dumping them into it.

 

Seems like you have an infrequent problem I have heard of...I fixed it on my parent's iMac....aslmanager problems