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When you double-click a photo in iPhoto to look at it full screen, it makes a copy of it on the chance that you intend to edit it. It stores that in a shadow di
by droithomme 14y ago
When you double-click a photo in iPhoto to look at it full screen, it makes a copy of it on the chance that you intend to edit it. It stores that in a shadow directory called "Modified". Even if you don't edit it, the copy is retained.
Right click on iPhoto Library, Show Package Contents, look at size of Modified vs Originals folders to see if this is the cause behind your library doubling. If it is the case, please report back, I'd like to know as I also do not care for the implementation of this functionality.
If you crop and such your photos then you can't just delete the Modified ones without trouble.
- Derbasti 14y agoAt the time, I did look into that stuff, but the Modified folders were not the problem. There was something else going on.
- kaffeinecoma 14y agoAre you serious? I double click pretty much every photo I find interesting in my collection. Is that not the natural way to view a photo full-size? Editing requires you to click "edit". Why would they needlessly allow this to bloat if no edits are made? I currently have: 1.2G Previews 7.8G Masters (BTW in my version at least, Modified/Originals are symlinks to Previews/Masters.)
- myspy 14y agoSame here, as far as I understand it, when you rotate a pic, or make some other changes, it creates a new version.