Jason, Interesting. Haven't used that one before. Thanks for the info. What is the command actually reporting? I tried it on a folder on my Desktop and it returned "40806224 /Users/Me/Desktop/Folder_name" whereas the Finder's Get Info window returns 20.89 GB.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:38 PM, Jason White <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: >> There's an app I've >> used fairly often called Disk Inventory X that will go through your drive >> and tell you how much each folder/file uses up. It does it in both a >> graphical and a tree-like fashion. > > That looks useful, thanks. > > OS X also includes the du command, which will similarly report disk space > usage. I find du -s to be an effective way of finding out quickly how much > space a given directory and all of its subdirectories occupy. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
