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Old 11-09-2014, 01:47 PM   #1
ruffy
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How to Best Spot Used Space

I have less than 25% capacity remaining on my macbook.
(See image - especially YELLOW portion.)

My trash is empty.

How would you explore where all those "OTHER" files
are (the yellow in the image) that occupy most of my space?

Is there a better way than going into every directory and use
the "GET INFO" option? Is there a more global approach?
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Old 11-09-2014, 03:03 PM   #2
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Use an application like OmniDiskSweeper.

http://www.omnigroup.com/more
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Old 11-09-2014, 04:47 PM   #3
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That stuff is all likely to be in your user domain: documents that you've saved. (The OS takes only about 10GB.)
I'm guessing you can't upgrade your internal storage easily: so you need to think about farming stuff out to another drive.

Don't forget that if you move stuff to an external drive, you'll need to back it up to a second external.
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Old 11-09-2014, 09:53 PM   #4
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