In this short video I will be showing you how to free up some space from iMovie. If you're like me,
you maybe create some videos for YouTube or for other social platforms. And if you're using
iMovie, this can actually build up really quickly to a large file size that's being used. Now, in my
case if we go to get info. We can actually see that there is about 80 gigabytes of space being
used up and even though if I go to my library it looks like there's only two videos in here. And if
I click on this three little dots beside the video and delete one of the projects. You will actually
see that it still doesn't free up any additional space. It just clears the movie library,
so we need to go to the media tab at the top of iMovie and in here we can see all of the events
that have been recorded over time. So all the different videos that I've created in the past.
Even though I've deleted them from the project's section, they still remain in here under the media
library. I can actually delete these individually or I can select them all at once. If you click on
iMovie library on the left side of your window and then you click into the middle section. If
you press command + a, you can actually select all of the files. So thats command button + a.
And now what we want to do is right click and click delete media from event. That will delete
media from all of the events. However, you will see that some of the files still exist and that
is because the project that contains these files is still under the project section of iMovie. So
it won't delete any files from existing projects that are running within iMovie. Now if we go
back to finder and we click on the get info on our iMovie library. You will see that the file
size has not really changed yet. And there's a reason for this. What we need to actually do
is close down iMovie before that space will be free. Before we do that I want to just delete
these events to clear things up completely within the library and to do that we just need to select
all of the events from the left menu and right click and press Delete. At this stage, now we
have only the files that are attached to existing projects within iMovie. So that's pretty much all
the data that we want to remove at this point. If we check the library we can see that even though
we've deleted all the event data the file size still hasn't changed yet. So what we need to do
is actually close the application and restart it again. And now we can actually see that we have
more space free after we restart the application. And if we just press check info again, once more
we can see now that it's down to 18 megabytes. So that seems to have worked quite nicely,
but there is still one more thing that we can do to take advantage of this extra space. And that is
to empty our trash can. Now you will see that most of the movie clips that we've recorded and the
the audio files have moved to the trash can. And at the bottom of the Finder window you will see
that we have quite a bit of space now but it is still less than what was originally in the iMovie
application. So once we delete the trash folder this should actually increase. And now we can see
that the number has moved up. So that is it for this video, hopefully you guys have found this
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