Alex, Between the System and Library files and your Applications, you likely use 15 to 20 GB. So, add that to your 18 GB of the user account plus the 15 GB of partition for Windows, you're getting pretty tight. There's an app I've used fairly often called Disk Inventory X that will go through your drive and tell you how much each folder/file uses up. It does it in both a graphical and a tree-like fashion. Of course, the graphical representation is useless but the tree-like one is quite helpful. It will organize the directories from largest to smallest then you can expand each to determine any offending files. You are able to subsequently delete things that could be causing you issue that are difficult to find. I just used it last week on my daughter's MBP and we found some iTunes cached movie content that used up close to 20 GB. Just movies that she had streamed and never bothered to watch right to the end of the credits. iTunes likes to remember where you were across devices so it had cached considerable portions of the movie using up quite a bit of space. Do a Google for that app. I don't believe it is available in the App Store as I don't think that it's been updated in a while. It's not perfectly accessible but perfectly usable. Make sure to be patient as it does its building of the tree, it sometimes takes a bit and you may think that things have hung, but they really haven't.
HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 14, 2014, at 6:23 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > Hi all, > Thanks to Tim's advice, I was able to log into that old account, but it was > empty. So, my 64GB Air has only 2GB free, yet the only active user account's > folder is just 18GB in size. Two questions: > 1. Does anyone have any ideas about what could be taking up all my space, and > how to find it? I ran a smart search for files greater than 100MB in size, > but the only hits were some apps and a virtual machine I already know about. > 2. Are there any good disk analyzers that are VoiceOver friendly I can try to > use? > > Thanks for any ideas. I realize that a 64GB drive is really not much these > days, but I have no music or other media stored on it, only a virtual machine > (15GB) and the essentials in a 3GB Dropbox folder. Other than that, > everything is on an external drive. I'm trying to install Xcode, but I have > no room right now. Plus, of course, keeping the boot drive at least a little > empty is better for the computer. > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
