Thanks to DaisyDisk for providing a copy of their app for this feature.

Thankfully, I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve. It even gives you the option to Tweet about your newfound drive space.which is odd but shows they're at least trying to inject some fun into what can be a tedious chore.Īlas, the Photo Library lives another day, growing by dribs and drabs. The deletion process is also thoughtful - giving you a 5-second delay before deleting the files forever (no lingering in the Trash here!). In the end, I settle for deleting a few old movies (that I can preview right from the app, that’s a nice touch). I could weed out some of the duplicate and unneeded photos…but editing a 45,000 item library would be a full time job and wouldn't really guarantee that the Photo Library was appreciably smaller. Sticking the library on a standard USB 2.0 external hard drive would make it perform even slower than it already does. But deleting fifteen+ years of personal photos isn’t an option.