Photos app is taking a huge amount of time to delete videos - need help

[deejayraz]

Hi.

I have unsync my icloud with my photos and i noticed that my mac has now 200gb worth of photos which has been transferred from my iCloud which is now sitting as storage on my Mac.

I go to the Photos app and try to delete all the videos first. There are a lot of videos (around 14,000) of them - i managed to delete them and transfer them to recently deleted but when i click on Delete All - photos app freezes and i don't know how to delete all the videos to free some storage from the mac.

Would love some help.

Thanks in advance

 

[duanepatrick]

The app crashed since you are trying to delete all of those. Try deleting by batch like per thousand?

 

[duanepatrick]

Or try to use a cleaner application, maybe that can help. I use Cleaner One and the Disk Map feature really helps especially tracking down what is eating your Mac's storage. Check it on App Store thru this link.