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Clogged up hard drive, but where are the files? - Winston - 10-10-2011
My wife's G4 iMac runs 10.5. It has a 250 GB hard drive (233 GB formatted). Right now it shows 3.59 GB available. But when I go to the top level of the Finder and look at the various folders (Applications, Users, System, etc.) the drive should be largely empty.
I have had problems before with OS X not showing correct folder size info on User folders except for the user who is logged in. But I'd think the top level Users folder would be right.
How can I find out what's filling up the drive?
Thanks.
- Winston
Re: Clogged up hard drive, but where are the files? - ztirffritz - 10-10-2011
Try Disk Inventory X
http://www.derlien.com/
Re: Clogged up hard drive, but where are the files? - Black - 10-10-2011
ztirffritz wrote:
Try Disk Inventory X
http://www.derlien.com/
Agree-- love this app.
Derlein.com seems to be offline-- alternate source:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14393/disk-inventory-x
Re: Clogged up hard drive, but where are the files? - voodoopenguin - 10-10-2011
Most likely not the case here but it's been the very simple answer to similar problems I have fixed for many people, make sure the Trash is empty.
Paul
Re: Clogged up hard drive, but where are the files? - M>B> - 10-10-2011
Good one Paul, after all the trash is just another folder with a trash icon, we users tend to store stuff in the trash and tend to store to much on the desktop too!!!
Grand Perspective will show you. - RAMd®d - 10-10-2011
It will show all files, even hidden ones, and give you access to to them very easily.
Sometimes it's as simple as a rogue of file.
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
Re: Clogged up hard drive, but where are the files? - Speedy - 10-10-2011
Diskwarrior.
Re: Clogged up hard drive, but where are the files? - Winston - 10-10-2011
Black wrote:
[quote=ztirffritz]
Try Disk Inventory X
http://www.derlien.com/
Agree-- love this app.
Derlein.com seems to be offline-- alternate source:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14393/disk-inventory-x
Thanks. Disk Inventory X is what I'd found Googling around, but I couldn't find a working source to download it and thought maybe it had gone away. It's running now.
- Winston
Re: Clogged up hard drive, but where are the files? - Winston - 10-10-2011
voodoopenguin wrote:
Most likely not the case here but it's been the very simple answer to similar problems I have fixed for many people, make sure the Trash is empty.
Paul
But shouldn't what's in the trash still show up as part of a user's folder?
I'm trying to avoid having to log into each user's folder (8 of them) individually to review the files.
Thanks.
- Winston
Re: Grand Perspective will show you. - Winston - 10-10-2011
RAMd®d wrote:
It will show all files, even hidden ones, and give you access to to them very easily.
Sometimes it's as simple as a rogue of file.
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
Looks like another good suggestion. Downloading it now for comparison.
Thanks!
- Winston