![]() In this case deleting the library bundle wouldn’t save much space, since most of the space is consumed by media files external to the library. Within FCPX if you clicked on the library then in the Inspector at bottom right examine the media space consumed, that might be 200GB, but the library bundle itself - what you see in Finder - could be quite small. In this scenario FCPX might have shown 200GB media space consumed *within* the app. John mentioned another possibility - if you had external media, the library itself wasn’t that big, so deleting it didn’t clear up much space. Was this your case - was the library itself 200GB at the Finder level? ![]() Likewise in Finder doing a CMD+I on that library would show 200GB. If your 200GB library was managed, IOW media was internal, then Finder would show 200GB occupied by the library bundle. Where/how do I use those commands to figure that out?” Any ideas what happened or how I can get that space back?This feels so beyond my scope to figure out. I then moved the original Library from the folder in “movies” on my computer to the trash and emptied it but it didn’t free up space. “…I just copied a 200G library from my computer to an external drive. Be careful not to delete anything else until you can be certain that you really have a copy that is physically located on that external drive. Did it’s capacity get reduced by 200G after the copy? If you left the files in place, your external “copy” may actually be linking back to your hard drive. That’s assuming the files made it to the external drive. Perhaps the copy you made on the external drive will give you a clue as to the filenames. ☹ You’re going to have to search your hard drive for some of the files by name to figure out where they are located if you don’t know. Since you deleted the Library, it would be extremely hard to figure out where the Library thought the footage was located now. I’m guessing that when you imported your media into the Library you opted to “Leave files in Place” and so they were never in the library to begin with just links to the files as Joe suggested.Ĭould this be the case? Do you copy files into the Library when you ingest footage or do you manually copy the footage yourself and leave files in place? “Any ideas what happened or how I can get that space back?” This can be confusing but it’s an optimization which actually saves space. If after deleting or moving the library and contained files if the link count decrements by one that indicates there were multiple hard links to the same file. If the inode number is the same, there is only one file despite the appearance of two files. The only way I know to investigate this is using the terminal commands ls -i which will show whether the same file in two different libraries have the same inode number, and ls -h which shows the link count of each file. ![]() Thus it won’t free up space since that space was never occupied. However on the original volume the “link count” of the contained files will simply be decremented by one, the files will be logically deleted but there were never two physical copies to begin with. If a library containing the same files as other libraries on the same volume is moved (not copied) to another volume, space will be required on that volume. They will appear as separate files both within FCPX and Finder and appear to take the same per-file space, but the overall volume space consumption will not increase - because under the covers there is only one physical copy of the files. Soft links can be recognized in Finder by the arrow icon, but hard links appear exactly like a real file. Hard links are a UNIX filesystem feature, as contrasted with soft links or symbolic links which point from the library to external media files. E.g, if you copy a library or within FCPX create a new library and copy the same files there, these will be hard links not duplicate copies of the files. FCPX will when possible use “hard links” for identical files on the same volume. ![]() The following is the only explanation I can think of. ![]()
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