Okay, fixed it! Thanks! I don’t know how long it would have taken me to figure that out without your help. I understood the function of snapshots, but I still don’t exactly understand how they work.

Feel free to stop here if you don’t want to read about the confusing steps it took to actually fix it. Based on the link you gave me, I looked at…

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Thanks for the reply. The disk is APFS. It is technically not an external disk; it is the original HD in my iMac, but I am using an external Thunderbolt SSD as my startup drive.

<font face=”inherit”>I downloaded OmniDiskSweeper. The </font>results<font face=”inherit”> are curious, </font>because<font face=”inherit”> it reports 632 GB on the disk,…

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I tried “Delete Generated Library Files…” for the first time in order to archive some projects I didn’t want to completely delete. I chose all the options for deletion so my libraries would only contain my original media. After going through the process for four libraries, I expected to regain about 300 GB of storage (based on what FCP showed in…

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