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In order to free up space I wish to delete all videos from my hard disc. They are deleted from the iMovie library, but I can't see them in the bin. The only videos I have were created in iMovie then subsequently exported to other devices.
Deleting the videos from your iMovie library deletes them from your hard drive, unless you have them additionally stored somewhere else.
What procedure did you do to delete the videos? Are these videos or projects that you are talking about?
-- Rich
Well, I deleted the videos from the the iMovie Library but I couldn't see them in the bin. Because I'm trying to free up space I want to be sure all videos are deleted from the hard disc. I work only with videos created in iMovie.
Could you describe, step by step, what procedure you did to delete videos from your iMovie library? Are they the original source video clips? I'm not clear what you mean when you say that you "work only with videos created in iMovie". What videos would those be? And what "bin" are you talking about -- the Trash folder that appears in the Show Package Contents when you delete a clip, or the general Mac trash bin on your desktop?
instead of deleting videos, why not simply move your iMovie library to an external drive that is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or APFS? Deleting from the Show Package Contents likely will corrupt your iMovie library and render unuasable any editable projects that you may have.
-- Rich
-- Rich
Select all in EDIT then delete files in iMovie library. I simply want to be sure, that the videos created in iMovie are actually deleted from the hard drive. Good idea to move the iMovie library to an external hard drive. Thanks for your advice.
Control-click on the Library's icon in the Movies folder (or wherever you have it stored) and choose Get Info from the pop up menu. If all of the media files have been deleted from the library the Get Info should show very few bytes.
Deleting all of the media out of the library will render all of the projects useless. The projects in the iMovie app will display black thumbnails with a ? mark in them and the notation "missing file". I doubt that you will be able to repopulate the projects. If you are going to delete all of the media in the library you might as well delete the entire library itself and create a new library for going forward. Just first export all of your "keep" projects out as movies so that you will have some archive of what you have done.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the safest thing would be to move your library to an external drive that is formatted Max OS Extended (Journaled) or APFS. That would free up space on your internal drive while allowing you to keep all of your projects intact. That is what I recommend.
-- Rich
Thank you Rich for your advice which I will be acting on.
Regards Anthony
You are very welcome. 😊
-- Rich
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