Hi guys today we're talking about one of the simplest and easiest ways to free up large amounts of storage space on your hard drive we're talking about photo and video files in my case these take up over 50% of the entire hard drive what we're gonna do today is we're going to relocate our iPhoto or photos database to an external hard drive freeing up all that space for us to use there's a few simple steps I'm gonna walk you through them now you begin by opening your photos or iPhoto library once your library is open you're gonna go over to the top left photos preferences the first thing we want to look for under preferences is right here under importing we want to make sure that the item is checked copy items to the photo library and that way we ensure that when we transfer for the database that all of the photos are actually within that database otherwise they could just be pointing to various files here and there outside of the actual database and we don't want to lose anything in the transfer so if the item isn't checked go ahead and check that item copy items to photo library then we're going to exit out of the preferences we're going to go over to edit and we'll do select all then we'll go file and we're going to do consolidate now in many cases you'll see that this will actually be grayed out and that means that there's no need no need to proceed however if you did not have that item checked earlier then you will need to consolidate before we continue and that may take just a few minutes so here we are with let's say we're set we're moving on we're gonna go back into photos preferences and what we're gonna see here is now we're going to look for the library location and so here we see exactly where our photo library is situated and we're going to show it in finder so that we can move the file over to our external hard drive so it's opened it here for us in this case ours is right here I actually have two photos libraries one for my wife and one for myself this particular one is three hundred and forty-one gigabytes we're going to go ahead and move that to the external hard drive and so you go ahead and you can just just drag the item to the external drive where you want this to go and we can just drop it there let's try one more time okay all right and then we should see the progress bar preparing to copy okay and then this is gonna give us a little bit of an estimate in this case this took me three hundred forty-one gigabytes so I don't know a little more than half an hour and so when that's all done.