One of the very few problems with my MacBook Air is that the solid state disk in my original model has only 55.45GB of capacity after formatting. I’ve been running nearly full for months and decided to purge some old data if I could find it this morning.
I discovered a duplicate iPhoto Library nested below my existing iPhoto Library and that modern versions of iPhoto (v6 or newer) can load alternate Libraries (only one at a time) by holding down the option key when you start iPhoto from icon or dock. I’d forgotten a botched attempt to edit many photos from the trip to Japan (editing is very fast on solid state disk), and apparently when I re-batch edited iPhoto could not figure out what do to about the old Library so it created a new one. Between deleting the old and redundant Library and emptying trash from within the iPhoto application, I managed to recover over 13GB of free space!
Much faster machine, much less concerned about being unable to save due to full file system.
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