My photo library has 49,939 photos and 473 videos in it, and I’d be willing to bet that it grows by 2,500 or more new photos each year. To delete movies that are locally stored, right click the file and delete them they’re still in the cloud to stream at any time. To download any of the movies, right click them and select Download. I personally download all of my movies at least once to an external drive, just in case the distributor ever decides to pull them from iTunes at some point. For anyone with a decent broadband connection, it’s possible to stream those videos, only downloading them to your Mac if you’re traveling and want to watch them while you’re offline. This indicates that the movies are available from the cloud and not on my local drive. (Movies In The Cloud.)Īs you can see in the image above, there’s a small cloud icon on the lower left side of each of the movies in this Movies Library. There’s an easy way to recover all that space - stream them instead of storing them by using iTunes in the Cloud. HD movies are big files, and anyone who has purchased a lot of movies from iTunes finds that they can quickly take up a lot of storage space. Related Tip: Skip ‘Taking Out the Trash’ When Deleting FilesĢ) Use iTunes In The Cloud for Movies and TV Shows Don’t need them? Trash them… and then remember to click and hold the trash can icon in the Dock and select Empty Trash to delete them for good. Once you’re in there, ask yourself if you really need any of those files - if you do, move them somewhere other than Downloads. From the Finder, either select Go > Downloads or just type Option-Command-L to open the Downloads folder. So set a reminder - perhaps a monthly reminder - to open Downloads, check how much space it’s using, and delete those files. Unless you do what I do and keep this folder in the Dock, you might not look at it very often. Before I know it, the folder is holding 40 – 50 GB of data! I even set up my favorite screenshot capture app, SnapzPro X, to save all of the thousands of screenshots I take each month to Downloads. Save a picture from a website? Downloads. When you download an app installer from a developer that doesn’t use the App Store, it goes into Downloads.
One place that often accumulates a lot of files is the Downloads Folder.
(Of course, you can always add additional storage to your Mac.) In this “how to” article, we’ll give you five quick ways to recover some space. Especially on the MacBook and MacBook Air with 128GB of SSD storage, storing a lot of video, photographs, and other big files can make you run out of space in a hurry. Even with the bigger hard drives, SSDs, and Fusion drives in modern Macs, it’s still possible to run low on storage space.
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