How to save disk space on the Mac, removing the SD-version of the iTunes movies

For a long time when you purchase movies in HD-quality, iTunes automatically download both versions (HD and SD). This was done in order to save space on our devices by downloading them when you sync conventional SD-version instead of "heavy" versions of high quality. After some time, Apple revised their policies, and the SD-loading films in the appendage to HD, is no longer practiced. It was the right decision, which is preserved in the future, many gigabytes of passionate film fans, but how to be pre-loaded and stored on the disc useless SD-versions of your films?

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All media, whether it's music or movies, iTunes stored on the disk in a folder ~ / Music / iTunes Media /For films where there is a separate folder Movies. All the downloaded movies are in separate folders named for the film. For each of them there are two versions, SD-quality we do not need, so it can be safely removed. Plain film and standard quality takes about one and a half gigabytes (from 1 to 2 GB) if you enjoy watching films and I have a large collection, removal of the ballast a positive impact on the amount of your available disk space.

All we need - simply remove the SD-version of each folder with the movie. They can determine the size and the absence of HD set-top boxes in the title, which is in all the movies in high quality. If you have a little movie, you can do this manipulation by hand. In case if you have an extensive film library, this hobby can be quite tedious.

As always, we come to the aid of built-in tools OS X, along exactly Finder and smart folders. otkravaem folder ~ / Music / iTunes Media / Movies and click ⌥⌘N, choose Moviesinstead this Mac and click +To add a new condition. Choosing Type of — other — The sizefile and specify the conditions less than 2 GB.

It remains only to preserve the folder if you want. Extradition weeded out all the files that are smaller than two gigabytes and can not be HD, by definition. From here you can safely delete all, freeing occupied by unnecessary files disk space.

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