library folder eating space

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library folder eating space

Posted by Craig Alan on July 16, 2011 at 12:34 am

I posted this on OS X forum. Curtis gave some good advice but I’m not comfortable just deleting stuff. Thought FCP folk might recognize this problem.

Macbook pro 2.5 GHz 4gb memory

Getting sluggish performance.

So I checked my hard drive

Hard drive 232 GB

Only 27.5 remaining.

So its 88% full.

I like to keep it under 80%.

My Apps take only 8 GB

My documents folder only 23 GB

My entire users folder 50 GB.

But my root level library is 60 GB.

FCS library alone is at 16 GB.

I didn’t think libraries should be taking this much space.

Is my system set up wrong?

Do I just need a bigger internal HD?

OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz
; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

Craig Alan replied 14 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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Paul Jay
July 16, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Soundtrack Pro has about 20 GB of samples in the Library/Audio

If you don’t use that, trash it.

Motion and DVD studio Pro also have big libraries 10GB each.

Garageband also has a pretty big sound libary.

Clean my Mac is a great little app for cleaning aswell.

That, and you need another harddrive.
Craig Alan
July 16, 2011 at 7:41 pm

correct. use external esata raid. That’s why I was surprised how full I was. all media off system drive. docs and apps take only a modest share. Why am I full? Oh FCS stores gigs of stuff in libraries.

OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz
; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
Craig Alan
July 16, 2011 at 8:02 pm

Thanks. My current drive is 230 gigs.

What would you recommend?
and
how hard to install myself?

i see hitachi 500 for a good price.

OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz
; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
Craig Alan
July 16, 2011 at 8:07 pm

never mind on how to.

still, what drive would you recommend?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9r1UAVq9AU

OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz
; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

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