My 500gb iMac (purchased April 2010) is about at capacity. 350gb of space is taken up by home movies (.dv files) in iMovie. I bought an external hard drive and have moved most of those videos over to the new drive.
After transfer, I deleted the original Events off iMovie and emptied the trash. I checked in both iMovie and in Finder and no longer see those files present on the Mac.
I thought this was going smooth and everything worked perfectly, but….when i went to check how much storage space i created on the Mac hard drive, the amount of available space barely budged (i moved 200gb of data to the new drive and yet i only created about 30gb of space on the Mac).
Any advice on what i did wrong? Are these "deleted" files hidden somewhere and I need to go delete from somewhere else? How do I make sure I get back the storage that i need?
Thanks for the help.
After transfer, I deleted the original Events off iMovie and emptied the trash. I checked in both iMovie and in Finder and no longer see those files present on the Mac.
I thought this was going smooth and everything worked perfectly, but….when i went to check how much storage space i created on the Mac hard drive, the amount of available space barely budged (i moved 200gb of data to the new drive and yet i only created about 30gb of space on the Mac).
Any advice on what i did wrong? Are these "deleted" files hidden somewhere and I need to go delete from somewhere else? How do I make sure I get back the storage that i need?
Thanks for the help.