Hello Tim, Thank you for telling me about this very nice application. I have downloaded and install the application and it has ran successfully. However, I am not viewing this additional 400 some-odd giga-bite HD hog. I am only seeing 27 items, and the largest of which is my user directory, which is fine because when expanding the folder everything is as it appeared when just preforming a normal calculation view. Hope I do not have to reformat or anything drastic like that because I really do not want to. Sorry to persist with this issue, but I want my space back. Lol. Do you have any other possible suggests or am I not doing something correctly?
Thanks. Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > • Do a Google search for an app named "Disk Inventory X". > • Download the Universal Binary version of this app. > • Open the DMG that is downloaded. > • Copy the app into your Applications folder. > • Open it. If it says that it comes from an Unknown developer, open it using > VO-shift-m to bring up the Contextual menu and choose Open from there. > • Once in the app, Interact with the Tabe. > • Select Macintosh HD. > • Stop Interacting with the Table and press the Open Volume button. > • Wait patiently as it determines everything it needs to determine. > > The window that ends up out front is not VO friendly but you can use the > Window Chooser (VO-f2-f2) to choose the window named Macintosh HD. When you > navigate to the Table in this window then Interact with it, it will list the > items in order of biggest to smallest. The size of each item, including > invisible items is listed to the right of the file/folder name. It sometimes > puts a comma within the numbers, just ignore it as it is misleading. > > I'm guessing that there is a rogue log file or plist file that is either > replicating itself or constantly being written to. I had this issue on a > MacOS Server one time as the smb side was under attack by someone trying to > get in. They never did but the Server was logging the attempts. This log > file was in a hidden area so simply doing the math from the visible files > didn't cut it but this app helped me solve the problem. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-10-18, at 8:52 AM, Emilio <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Chris and Tim, > > > > This is somewhat of a problem because when trying to move folders from > > one location to another I get a message informing me that my operation > > cannot be completed because I do not have enough hard disk space. > > Furthermore, When calculating my Macintosh HD the largest file is my > > user directory, which is only 536GB. Thus, what is being allocated to > > the other 460GB? My iTunes folder is roughly 270GB and my VMWare > > folder is less than 35GB. This morning I check my disk space once > > more, and now I lost 4GB since yesterday (Bringing my free space to > > 16GB). > > I might have to reluctantly get someone to help me use Daisy Disk to > > see what is going on, if this will even help solve my issue because I > > feel that the remaining 460GB should still be free. I back-up my > > machine weekly and I even did a fresh Mountainlion install in early > > September. > > If any other light can be shed on the issue I welcome the feedback. > > > > P.S. Within /Library/Receipts exists a host of foreign language > > package install files, can these be deleted since they are never used > > - minus the English language packages of course? > > Thanks > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en.
