You would think that deleting these is as simple as selecting one or all of them and hitting the delete key. So now I can get rid of them from inside iPhoto knowing that I've got them somewhere else. Now if I look in this folder I can see that I've got copies of all of them. I'm going to click on the desktop and create a new folder, there, called My Videos and then simply select all of these, drag them out into here. So let's create some space here so I can see the desktop. The first thing that we want to do is to get copies of these out of iPhoto before we delete them. Now typically when you are doing this you may find that there are tons of them in here. Here are all the videos stored in my iPhoto library. When I do that I get this album here, Smart Album you can see that it has this little gear there to show you that, called Videos. So let's create a Smart Album and let's put as the criteria for the Smart Album that the photo is a movie. So it is not a reliable way to do it.Ī much more reliable way is to create a Smart Album. If you are using different cameras and phones and things you may have videos with different file extensions. But that assumes that all your videos have that file extension. Finding all your videos can be as easy as doing a search for something like mov. So the problem is that you've got tons of videos in your iPhoto collection. I put videos, which I have much fewer of, in folders in the Finder. I, for one, just like to store photos in iPhoto. Maybe they are not that important to you or maybe it is not important for you to have them stored in iPhoto. You take videos on your iPhone, you sync with iPhoto and you find out that you've got just tons of videos on here. The most common thing that causes this is having lots of videos. Usually somebody is having trouble finding space on their MacBook drive or they are trying to move their iPhoto library somewhere else because it is hundreds of gigs in size. One of the really common things I hear about is an iPhoto collection that is huge.
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On this episode let me show you how to shrink your iPhoto library size by removing all of the videos.
Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Looking for a unique holiday gift? – Give a Gift Certificate from No Problem Mac.Check out Removing Videos From Your iPhoto Library at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. If you have questions or need Mac, iPhone or iPad help, support, service or repair call No Problem Mac at 31. To choose which iPhoto library you open, hold down the Option key and double click on the iPhoto icon in the dock. The iPhoto icon will bounce and then present you with a window where you can choose what library you would like to open.Īs a default, if you just double click on the iPhoto icon in the dock it will open whatever library was last used. This method is perfect if you want to break up an existing library that you feel is too large.
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