Adventures in Garbage!

[errantember]

One of the quintessential sayings of my life is that "When it comes right down to it, there's nothing quite like garbage!" This was totally borne out today as a casual inspection of the Trashcan in IPhoto finally told me where the hell all the space on my hard drive had gone! I was always under the impression that IPhoto moved deleted pictures into the system trashcan. It is evidently a Mac-ism that each application has it's own little private toilet for your waste products.

At first I couldn't believe it when it asked me "are you sure you want to delete the following 3481 photos?"

What?!?

I had to actually page through a few screens to make *sure* I wasn't somehow deleting something important. Sure enough, though, they were all, well, TRASH.

Eight point two GIGABYTES, 10% of my entire fucking system hard drive later, the trash is finally empty.

I feel like the scientist who discovered the concept of Dark Matter.

My laptop feels like it just took it's first shit in two years.

Comments

[darthbecca.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[darthbecca.livejournal.com]

PS - I like you. I have decided I should have flirted with you more at Burning Man :) Hope you're doing well!

I like you, too!

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Would have been happy to get flirted with more at Burning Man.

I'm planning on being there next year, and I might come visit Adam in Atlanta sometime.

Actually...

[(Anonymous)]

This is peculiar to iPhoto. Most apps do use the system trashcan.

You might also want to hunt down "iPhoto Diet" -- whenever you edit a photo in iPhoto, the app keeps a copy of the original. This can add up. iPhoto Diet deletes the originals.

Re: Actually...

[errantember.livejournal.com]

Hi Adam. I *do* have IPhoto Diet, specifically because you recommended it. However, despite being a very useful and space-saving program, it evidently didn't occur to them to empty the trash as one of it's space saving features! Or, possibly, there's a setting for it and I missed it.