We scanned a very large number of photos and slides for a client, she was kind enough to say she was happy with the results which she was going to load into iPhoto on her sleek new MacBook Air.
Having done that she wasn’t so happy. She complained that having loaded all the digital images she had no hard drive capacity left. Why?
I did some digging and found out how iPhoto treats the photo loading process. When you Import photos iPhoto actually copies each image from the source file into its own library, our client had taken a two step process. First, she’d copied all our files from the DVDs we supplied onto her hard drive. Second, she then imported into iPhoto. All went well and naturally she assumed the “source” files were those she was seeing in iPhoto. But the whole process had eaten twice as much disk space as necessary.
Solution - simply delete the copes of the photo scans we’d done. Disk usage back to a sensible level.
