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Why are photos taking so much space Mac?
Storage” on that device (e.g., “Optimize Mac Storage” on your Mac). After you do that, Photos will automatically detect storage becoming tight on your device and discard the full resolution copies of enough photos to ease the storage constraint, keeping copies with lower resolution.
How do you optimize Photos?
Test your images.
- Name your images descriptively and in plain language.
- Optimize your alt attributes carefully.
- Choose your image dimensions and product angles wisely.
- Reduce the file size of your images.
- Choose the right file type.
- Optimize your thumbnails.
- Use image sitemaps.
- Beware of decorative images.
How much free disk space do I need for photos?
What that post does clarify is that Photos apparently has an optimization target: 10 percent of free disk space. So on my 467GB partition, it’s trying to free up roughly 47GB of free space. (At the moment that drive has 42GB free, so I guess it’s working?) I’m also a little surprised at the 16GB of thumbnails in my Photos Library.
Why is there no storage in photos on Mac?
In true Apple fashion, Photos protects the user from thinking about managing storage — everything happens automatically, with absolutely no intervention from the user. That’s as it should be, but a few optional controls for the control freaks among us wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
Is there a way to optimize the size of my Photos library?
Photos is definitely optimizing the size of its library, though it’s still not entirely clear to me whether it only does this when it’s running, or if there’s some background process that might do it all the time. (My guess is that it’s the former.)
How big is the photos library on a Mac?
Plumbing the depths of the Internet, I found this pretty great post on StackExchange that charts the size of the Photos library and a Mac’s disk usage.