Removal of previews in Photos

Hi all. My Photos (Yosemite) program currently uses not least 135 GB. He says I have 15,000 images, but, in fact, I have - at most - about 5 000. I used a program to remove duplicates, but it had little effect. I think that the issue could be with the multiple previews and thumbnails Photos seems to produce on its own. Can they be deleted without compromising the originals?

Can they be deleted without compromising the originals?

If you delete anything in your photo using the Finder library, you will need to either corrupt or Photos library will recreate just deleted files and you will very slow photos. The thumbnails are required in order to browse the library of Photos quickly and previews are required in order to use pictures from other applications. For Photos, re-create whenever you try to remove them.

The size of the auxiliary files (previews, thumbnails, resources) adds about a quarter of the storage needed for the original files in the folder of masters in my photo library. If such an increase by 25% by the storage necessary for auxiliary files is a problem for you, move the photo library on an external drive. Then it will soon be too big for the drive internal anyway, if you take more pictures.

He says I have 15,000 images, but, in fact, I have - at most - about 5 000. I used a program to remove duplicates, but it had little effect.

Where you see the number of 15000 photos in Photos?

The sight of Photos at the high point of the 'Photos' page in the sidebar will show you the number of photos in the library, without the hidden pictures. The album 'All the Photos' will also show you the hidden pictures.

Photos are photos different from the Finder.  All pictures in the burst will be taken into account as a picture, and if you are shooting RAW and JPEG pairs RAW and JPG will be stacked and show that just a photo. The Finder will count them differently.

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