I took my laptop on vacation to be able to offload photos from my camera, figuring (rightly so) that I would be snapping away as fast as I could fill the memory card. Along about Wednesday OS X told me my hard disk was almost full and that I needed to free up some space. I ran OmniDiskSweeper and found that my two biggest space hogs were my iPhoto library and Steam. I’m not quite ready to give up Portal and Half-Life, although I haven’t played either in 6 months, and I’ve still got photos from the latter half of 2011 on this drive, so I focused on the obvious.

One of the issues I’m up against is that I had Flickr and iPhoto connected; doing some research I learned that simply erasing files in iPhoto also removed their counterparts from Flickr. So I followed some steps to disconnect the app from the service and it worked painlessly.

Next, I had to manually go through all the photos in 2012 taken with the D7000 and update their EXIF data to 2013 (I’d set the date in the camera wrong) so that iPhoto would refile them in their correct folders. Tonight I’m backing up the 2013 photos to my archive drive and tomorrow I’ll nuke all of 2011 and 2012 on this drive, which should net about 25GB of space. I think it’s time for a 1TB drive in this thing…