Something is definitely up, I’ve just deleted another 3 gb of apps from my apps folder, cleared trash, and ran Disk Doctor. Still shows 17.28gb as the size of the apps folder. Ideas welcome, meantime I keep googling.
> On Jul 31, 2015, at 1:20 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's not bad at all. There are some hidden things that can take up space. > How are you finding the free space count? There are a few hidden things that > can still throw off the overall math. The recovery partition and such take > about 1GB. I have a hidden folder called MobileBackups which is about 1GB. If > you're using MacPorts or the like your /opt and /private folders can be a > dozen or so GB. > > CB > > On 7/31/15 2:39 PM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: >> Ok, so I’ve downloaded and ran “Disk Doctor” as suggested by a lister. >> I’ve also enabled “calculate all sizes” and my applications folder is >> 17.28gb, Libraries is 5.17gb, system folder is 9.81gb, and my users folder >> is 17.43gb. Total space used should be down around 50gb, any ideas guys/gals? >> I’m still showing 81gb used. >> Any ideas? >> >> >> >>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:25 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Odd. Then your free space should reflect those files being gone. One handy >>> way to figure out where you space went is to open your hard drive, make >>> sure you are in list view (command+2) and then go to View Options >>> (command-J). That pops up a window with extra options checkboxes. At the >>> bottom of that list of checkboxes is one that says Calculate all sizes. >>> Check that one and then command ~ to jump back to your list view of the >>> hard drive and there will be a Size column. Usually for folders the size is >>> just "--" but the Mac will start totaling up all the files and replace >>> those "--" with actual numbers. You can then start to focus on the folders >>> with the most space used and start to drill down to figure out what's using >>> the most space. The Calculate all sizes beats on your hard drive making (ad >>> updating) all those totals so when you're done you'll want to turn that >>> back off. My Applications folder is 71GB while my OSX 10.10.4 system is >>> only 11GB. I would expect the bulk of the deletable stuff to be either apps >>> you no longer need or stuff under Users/youraccountnamefolder. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 7/31/15 12:06 PM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: >>>> No it is empty. >>>> >>>>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:00 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If you open the trash, is there still anything in it? >>>>> >>>>> CB >>>>> >>>>> On 7/31/15 10:43 AM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: >>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>> I’ve just noticed the usage on my Mac HD is getting more full than I >>>>>> like. >>>>>> I’ve just deleted several gigs of data, and I am not seeing the space >>>>>> freed up like I expected. Only a couple hundred megs freed up. I have >>>>>> emptied the trash, and am not sure what I need to do to see this newly >>>>>> emptied space. >>>>>> I’ve even restarted the Mac to see if something was hanging. >>>>>> Any advice is appreciated. >>>>>> Thank you. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > > -- > 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.
