

Here's how! How to delete pictures or videos in Photos for Mac Deleted pictures and videos can be recovered for up to 30 days (unless you have zero storage space on your computer), or can be deleted immediately and forever. If you're using iCloud Photo Library, anything you delete on your Mac will also be deleted on all your other iCloud Photo Library-enabled devices, including your iPhone and/or iPad. Whether you're trying to free up storage, battling duplicates, eliminating personal photos no one else ever needs to see, or just cutting out the bad shots, Photos for Mac makes it easy to delete single or multiple pictures or videos in a snap! PS: Just for reference: My Library folder currently holds about 16 GB of Evernote data, 4 GB Developer docs from Xcode, 1 GB mail and 1.5 GB iOS software updates. Use cd again to drill further done and repeat the du command. sort -n which will show you the largest directories at the end.

Contribute to fwartner/mac-cleanup development by creating an account on GitHub. The first time you start up Photos after upgrading, your Mac will copy over your photo library into the new software (if you explicitly set up more than one old iPhoto library, you’ll have to copy them over yourself). A Mac that was upgraded to a new version of OS X that added the Photos app, however, can end up with what look like duplicates of their photo libraries.

Step 3 Drag the Photos Library you want to delete to the Trash. Step 2 Open your system disk Users Pictures. To delete Photos library on Mac: Step 1 Go to Finder.
