To move iMovie library to an external hard drive.įormat an external drive as MacOS Extended (Journaled).Ĭlose iMovie.
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If you have limited free disk storage space on your Mac, it is a good idea to get an external drive that is a least 500GB to store your iMovie library. That's why iMovie usually takes up a few or even more than 100GB of space. Also, files such as render files are created during the editing. To edit a movie, iMovie transcodes the clips into a format that is suitable for editing but is extraordinarily large in size. Step 2 Drag two folders - "iMovie Events" and "iMovie Projects", which contains the projects and events of the previous iMovie, to the Trash. (If Movies can't be found, click Go > Go to Folder > ~/movies/ to get to the Movies folder). You can delete the projects and events of the previous version of iMovie to clear disk space. Remove Old Libraries after iMovie 10.0 UpdateĪfter updating to iMovie 10.0, the libraries of the previous version still remain on your Mac.
Click Repair.Īfter repairing, all the projects you deleted are gone and the space taken by iMovie is shrunk.
You may get the message that asks you to repair the iMovie Library.
Step 3 Delete the folders of the projects that you don't need. Step 2 Right click on iMovie Library and choose Show Package Contents, where there are folders for each of your projects. Open Finder > Movies (If Movies can't be found, click Go > Go to Folder > ~/movies/ to get to the Movies folder). If there is still not enough space for iMovie or iMovie still takes up way too much disk space, there is one more step you can do to clear iMovie library. Find the Render Files folder and delete the folder. Right click on iMovie Library and choose Show Package Contents. If you cannot delete Render files in Preference, you are using an older version of iMovie and have to delete render files in this way: Open iMovie Library: Open Finder > Go to folder > go to ~/Movies/. Click Delete button next to Render Files section. If after deleting unneeded projects and events, iMovie still takes up lots of disk space, you can further clear disk space on iMovie by deleting render files of iMovie. Deleting an iMovie library will delete all projects and media files in it.
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If you have exported the final movie to somewhere else and don't need the media files for further editing, you can delete the library. If an iMovie Library is taking lots of space, say 100GB, can you delete the entire iMovie library to clear disk space? Yes. To get free space, click the All Events and delete the event that has the media files.Īfter deleting the events and projects that you don't need, quit and restart iMovie to see if you can import new videos without the "not enough disk space" message. Instead, the media files are saved in a new event with the same name as the project. Note that when you delete a project, the media files used by the project isn't actually deleted.
To delete a project from iMovie Library: select the unwanted project, click Move to Trash. To free up storage space, delete the entire events. Note that deleting clips of an event just remove the clips from the event while the clips are still using your disk space. To delete an event from iMovie Library: select the unwanted events, click Move Event to the Trash. If on the iMovie library, you have projects and events that you no longer need to edit, you may delete these unwanted projects and events to release disk space. Step 3 You can also click large & old files to remove iMovie files that you don't need, delete duplicated files on Mac and more to get more free space.ĭelete Projects and Events from iMovie Library
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