I'll look that up, thanks. The odd thing is that the 18GB of my account includes the 15GB virtual machine, it's not a separate partition or anything. As I said, I really try to keep this as bare as possible. I just erased iMovie, the new and old versions, and that gave me about 4.5GB of space. Still, I'm close to full and I can't work out why. Hopefully the app you mentioned can help. On Jul 14, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:
> 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. -- 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.
