Freeing up disk space

I have transferred just about all of my photos to an external hard drive to make room on my drive to do an update on my Mac. I've moved over 40Gb worth of photos but it still shows 43Gb on my flash storage graph and I am unable to do the update.

Any ideas?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 15, 2020 7:23 PM

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Dec 15, 2020 7:27 PM in response to MoroccoMole65

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