At 10:35 PM -0500 1/25/2009, William Spencer wrote: > >I asked this question a year or two back, about what's taking up all >the space on this machine's HD.
Is there something in particular you're looking for? >So I braved Terminal and ran a command that someone else suggested, >"find / -size +100000" and I am appending those results...because I >can't figure them out past a certain pretty basic point. The results you pasted aren't overly useful - the account from which you ran the find didn't have access to all your files. To give it that access, you need to run it from an admin account, and prefix it with "sudo". >I am editing them down to remove my iTunes stuff, not because >I'm embarrassed by what's there (far from it!) but because I know >about that stuff and there's no need to make anyone else wade >through it. I've gone nutz, loading up music and such recently. I like that iTunes will tell you your total in DAYS! :) >So: what does all this mean? And how can I tell what should get >deleted and what should not? It means nothing - since it's just a bunch of permission denied messages. If you're trying to clean up your machine, why not run a tool like OnyX? Use it to run the three maintenance scripts, then clear all the caches. See how far that gets you... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
