Thanks for your advice. I really need to learn to make friends with Terminal and its commands.
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro [email protected] On Mar 7, 2013, at 7:43 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn <[email protected]> wrote: > Try the df -k command in terminal and verify what it says about free space. > > You can also try the following command > > du -s * | sort -n > > This command tells you the size of every file/folder in the current directory > and sorts them by size so the largest is at the bottom. > > One other question did you check the size of the Trash? Unlike Windows > Macintosh computers usually do not auto-empty the trash/recycle bin. > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan Cohn > [email protected] > (703) 573-6956 > http://www.linkedin.com/in/JCCohn > > > > > On Mar 7, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Richard Ring wrote: > >> Hello: >> I have a Mac Book Air that I'm trying to help a friend with. This machine >> has a 128 GB drive. The problem is, the system shows that the drive has 1.6 >> gb free. I can't for the life of me determine what is taking up all the >> space. There is no music, no videos. Is it possible that the Mac could be >> reporting the amount of free space incorrectly? Should I simply look at each >> individual folder and add up what each folder is showing as used space? I'm >> wondering if there is anything obvious I'm overlooking. >> Thanks. >> >> >> You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding >> Sent from my Mac Book Pro >> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> 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?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
