[iBook] Find my missing 7 gigs

[Matt Hurst]

Cheers Jay. I had a poke around with WhatSize and the main culprit
seemed to be a 1.5g MacTex file left over from when I toyed around
with Lyx for a bit. It was in the usr directory which is of course
hidden from normal mortals.

I also discovered where the 200 Keynote templates were and got rid of
most of the more twee ones, and got rid of loads of Garage Band loops,
both onto an external HD. I'm up 5 gigs on the day, but I still think
there's more to be trimmed...

Matt


On 09/07/07, Jay Hill <jayh at jalehill.com> wrote:
>
> There are a number of utilities that allow you to view how much space
> specific files and folders are using quickly and fairly easily.
>
>
> Here's links to a few: Disk Inventory X: http://www.derlien.com/
> WhatSize: http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/
> OmniDisk Sweeper:  http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/
> omnidisksweeper/
>
> I personallyy like Disk Inventory X, but check them all out.
>
> Jay
>
>
>
>
> > It's probably my shoddy understanding of OS X, but having spent the
> > afternoon sweeping up files to stop my 30g hard drive filling up, I
> > just did some sums based on 'Get Info', and I seeme to have about 7
> > gigs missing:
> >
> > Users folder: 2.97g
> > System: 1.06g
> > Library: 3.99g
> > Apps: 7.57g
> > Free: 8 gigs (according to Finder anyhow)
> >
> > Which leaves me 7 gigs unaccounted for, or allowing for formatting
> > etc. on the HD, at least 4 gigs.
> >
> > So what's OS X hiding from me, and why? Is my hard drive on the way
> > out (it's a 2 and half year old G4 1.2mhz iBook)?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Matt
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