Re: Storage questions

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Blouch
At least for sorting by size of the folders you can do that in the finder. Open up the Macintosh HD in List View (command-2) and then sort by size. Only snag is that by default folders sort as though they have zero size. But you can change that in the View menu by picking show view options (com

Re: Storage questions

2013-03-08 Thread Richard Ring
Thanks for your advice. I really need to learn to make friends with Terminal and its commands. You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Mar 7, 2013, at 7:43 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > Try the df -k comma

Re: Storage questions

2013-03-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Try the df -k command in terminal and verify what it says about free space. You can also try the following command du -s * | sort -n This command tells you the size of every file/folder in the current directory and sorts them by size so the largest is at the bottom. One other question did yo

Storage questions

2013-03-07 Thread Richard Ring
Hello: I have a Mac Book Air that I'm trying to help a friend with. This machine has a 128 GB drive. The problem is, the system shows that the drive has 1.6 gb free. I can't for the life of me determine what is taking up all the space. There is no music, no videos. Is it possible that the Mac co