Remove those and browsing your library becomes impractically slow as it ends up having to load in large image files and then render them at the size you're viewing at. I have a bit of insight into what this 'redundant' data is, and what it would mean to remove it.įirst, a lot of it has to do with creating alternative views (thumbnails) of your images. or at least as similar as could be at the time on Windows. I worked with a startup many years ago that did something similar to iCloud Photos. My personal library is about 250GB and that has about 35GB of what you're calling redundant information. Your situation does sound very typical, if not absolutely average. The offending storage hogs are thumbnails caches and facial recognition stuff that Photos creates by itself! Trouble is, my Photos Library is beyond 46 GB! Photos clogged my SSD with 11 GB of redundant information, related to my own media! That, combined to Apple asking an arm and a leg for better storage options on its MacBooks, makes for a preposterous situation!īefore anyone says anything, I don’t have duplicated data, or edits. As of now, I have 35 GB of photos and home videos (as stated by iCloud and the size of the Masters folder), which I believe to be somewhat typical.
Apple would do well to find a better solution to Photo Library.
