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What do you do when Final Cut Pro is
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eating up all of the storage space on
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your Mac? Well, here's what you can do.
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You select your library in the column on
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the left here, then you go to file,
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delete generated library files, and make
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sure you enable all of these settings.
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Set it to all, delete your optimized,
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proxy, and unused magnetic mask files.
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This will delete some of the rendering
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stuff that Final Cut Pro does in the
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background that can build up and clutter
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up your hard drives. So, select all of
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that and click okay. This won't delete
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any of the files or videos you have on
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your Mac. It'll keep all of it in place.
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It just clears out some of the caches
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and duplicates that Final Cut Pro can
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make. Next, to make sure this doesn't
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keep happening, you're going to change a
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few settings. You go to Final Cut Pro
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settings, and here's what you're going
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to do. In the playback tab, you make
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sure background render is turned off.
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You make sure create optimized media is
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Then, in the import tab, you're going to
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set leave files in place, and you're
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going to turn off create optimized
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media, and turn off create proxy media.
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That'll stop those duplicates and cached
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versions from building up going
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forwards. Another option is an app like
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HyperGlue Space, which can remove
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duplicate files from your Mac. If you
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enable it in the advanced settings, you
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can make sure that if you have a video
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file inside a Final Cut library that
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matches one you already have in your
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photos library, it'll condense them into
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one. As you can see, I can reclaim 64 GB
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of space. And if you take a look at the
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files it found, it's all multi-gigabyte
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files that are inside my Final Cut Pro
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library that are also just stored in the
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finder on my computer.
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So, I can reclaim all that space just
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like that. That is how you can make sure
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a Final Cut Pro library doesn't eat up
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your entire Mac hard drive. I'm Digger
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from Jans with Cult of Mac.
