Mac media management software developer NeoFinder has discovered a space-wasting bug in Apple's built-in photo and scanner tool, Image Capture.
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Images not showing up on Image Capture hotfix
How does it work? When you use Image Capture to import images from, say, an iPhone or iPad, you have the option of converting them to JPEG when you transfer them to your Mac, instead of importing them as the standard HEIC format.
To do this, uncheck the "Keep Original" checkbox in Image Capture and then import. When you did, however, the developers discovered that each imported photo file had an extra 1.5MB of useless data attached (see image below).
The big picture: If you have a MacBook with a smaller SSD in it, you could be wasting gigabytes of data this way. With just 1,000 photos imported this way, you'd be looking at 1.5GB of wasted space. That's a lot when your MacBook only has, say, 128GB total.
