Hi,
So, your Users folder is the largest and using Disk Inventory X, you were able
to look at the items from largest to smallest. Doing some rough math when just
looking at the items at the root level of Macintosh HD, what does it add up to?
Also, in Disk Utility, what does it say about the partitions on the 1 TB drive.
Does it list only one partition or multiple? What does it say in the
Description field near the bottom of the window with respect to Verified and
such?
Beyond that, how about we run the disk maintenance protocols manually. These
are normally run in the background in the early hours of the morning or, if
your computer is not available at that time, they will run upon startup or
wake. Do the following to run them manually:
• Go into the Terminal app, in the Utilities folder.
• type the following command:
sudo periodic daily
• it should ask you for your Admin password, enter it and press return then
wait for the prompt to re-appear.
If you wish, you can run the weekly and monthly maintenance procedures by
substituting the "daily" parameter with both "weekly" and "monthly"
respectively.
Quit the Terminal app and see if that made any difference.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2012-10-18, at 1:10 PM, Emilio <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>
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