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My niece became a Mac user about a year ago. She needed a computer for junior high and also wanted to experiment with iMovie a bit. She is now running out of space on the smallish flash drive and is down to less than 2 GB of free space. She hasn't experienced significant slowdowns yet but I taught her well and she knows this situation cannot continue.
I had her run Grand Perspective last night and it looks like the two largest space hogs at the moment are iMovie's library and the iPhoto/Photos library. She has an external drive drive (1 TB) so what I'd like to do is move this files to the external drive. Can folks who use these two programs more than I do suggest a best practice method of moving these files and causing as little disruption/confusion when further editing is done. Keep in mind the following:
1. Don't have the exact machine/OS specs since I forgot to confirm that last night. Don't think it is El Capitan.
2. iMovie is the most recent version I think.
She has a Time machine backup.
I had her run Grand Perspective last night and it looks like the two largest space hogs at the moment are iMovie's library and the iPhoto/Photos library. She has an external drive drive (1 TB) so what I'd like to do is move this files to the external drive. Can folks who use these two programs more than I do suggest a best practice method of moving these files and causing as little disruption/confusion when further editing is done. Keep in mind the following:
1. Don't have the exact machine/OS specs since I forgot to confirm that last night. Don't think it is El Capitan.
2. iMovie is the most recent version I think.
She has a Time machine backup.