Quicktime player ate up my space

[yozora]

Hello,
I saved a movie file in an external hard disk there was afree space when I saved the file maybe 300gb, but now it's completely full!!!
I need my external hard disk space.
I tried to look for a way to solve this I cleared the recent file in the Quicktime player but nothing has changed.

I tried to save another file using Quicktime but I choose the internal hard disk but nothing has changed. please help me to solve get my free space back!

I'm using Siera 10.12.6
Macbook

thanks in advance.

 

[IWT]

I'm sorry to read of your plight.

Can you tell us how large the Movie File was before you tried to save it? And what was the format of the File - eg .mp4 or .something else?

The External Hard Drive (EHD) had, you think, about 360GB of free space. Now it is full. If you use Disk Utility (DU), you can read what is taking up the space. That might help us too.

Lastly, when you tried to save another File to your Mac's Internal HD, what happened? You only say that "nothing has changed". What does that mean?

Ian

 

[yozora]

I'm sorry to read of your plight.

Can you tell us how large the Movie File was before you tried to save it? And what was the format of the File - eg .mp4 or .something else?

The External Hard Drive (EHD) had, you think, about 360GB of free space. Now it is full. If you use Disk Utility (DU), you can read what is taking up the space. That might help us too.

Lastly, when you tried to save another File to your Mac's Internal HD, what happened? You only say that "nothing has changed". What does that mean?

Ian

It was very short 6 min long (372mb) .mpg I used QuickTime Player to trim it and saved it in a external hard disk, then after that all the free space I had in my external hard disk had gone. (now I deleted the file) I just wanted to use the file to make a short video using iMovie. BUT still no free space in my external hard disk.

Disk Utility is not Explaining what is taking up space. I'm attaching a photo.

Nothing happened. I didn't restore my free space. and I didn't lose a large number of space like what happened to my external hard disk.


thanks for your reply.

 

[harryb2448]

Have a read through this and see if it helps at all:-

macOS: What is Purgeable Storage on Your Hard Drive?

On episode 695 of Mac Geek Gab listener Todd had a question about macOS. What is purgeable storage, and is there a way to manually clear it out and reclaim storage space?

www.macobserver.com

 

[chscag]

It was very short 6 min long (372mb) .mpg I used QuickTime Player to trim it and saved it in a external hard disk, then after that all the free space I had in my external hard disk had gone. (now I deleted the file) I just wanted to use the file to make a short video using iMovie. BUT still no free space in my external hard disk.

Just use Disk Utility to erase and format the external drive and then all your space (1 TB) will be restored. We have no idea what you did initially to fill up that drive but it definitely is full according to Disk Utility.

I suspect the movie file you saved to the hard drive was larger than you first thought. Anyway, before formatting that external drive if you have anything on it that you need, you will have to first copy it to another drive otherwise it will be lost.