So I'm pulling a bunch of photos off of old computers onto my NAS. I first pull them into a generic folder on volume 2 with all of the same folder structure as what they had from the computer I copied them from. I then use PhotoMove software to pull them out of the old, messed up folder hierarchy and place them into new, organized folders in the Photo->Moments directory. Part of the photo move software will compare the photos I'm moving to photos that are alreadyin the destination folder for deduplication purposes. Any duplicates are sent to a separate folder for me to delete later. I'm getting close to maxing out my current hard drive capacity, but I know that I have tons of duplicates. When I delete the duplicates, I also check to make sure that I am emptying the Recycle bin. However, ever time I do a move, my overall system volume has been increasing, despite actually deleting thousands of photos. I'm probably not explaining it the best, but I can't figure out where my storage capacity is going.
My backups are not on the same volume as the photos, so I don't believe that is my issue.
My backups are not on the same volume as the photos, so I don't believe that is my issue.