Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

For the 10 biggest directories, open up terminal and type the following cd / du -s * | sort -n | tail - 10 Just substitute The number at the end of that command for however many large directories you want displayed Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 29, 2016, at 1:44 PM, Brian Fischler

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Just to add to this, don’t be afraid of the unix shell. It’s very good that you’re cautious and take care but it’s not that delicate. The du command for example is totally read only. I understand the fear but it’s a powerful part of your computer and you may want to revisit that issue.

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

The most likely suspects are TImeMachine if you have it enabled, and do not have the backup disk connected. Bittorrent clients. In any case, I love to use du the command cd / du -s * | sort -n | tail - 20 While this command will take a while to run it should give you the directories that

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Another option might be Clean My Mac. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 2/29/2016 3:23 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: Appreciate it but as you said Onix does not seem to do what I am trying to do as I

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Appreciate it but as you said Onix does not seem to do what I am trying to do as I installed it earlier and it seemed to do everything except tell you what is taking up space, and unfortunately disk utility which you would think would tell you what is taking up space on your computer does not

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Here is the link to download from Mac update. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx Also if you are willing to see what’s taking up most disk storage space disk utility might do the job. Onyx is more gear towards file optimization and disk

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Unfortunately I could not find the program you mentioned and just bought one that of course does not work with VO, so back to ground zero here so if anyone knows of an accessible program that will tell you what is taking up space on your computer do let me know just something basic as this is

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Thanks so much I will search for it as I found a program called omni focus but not sure if it either is not totally accessible or what but it was a loss, not sure why this is so complicated as last I checked there was nothing on this computer. Thinking my downcast pods got downloaded or

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Hi! There is a program called Drive Pulse. I think it can do what you want and for me it was quite accessible. I don’t remember their site now but i can check it out for you if you don’t want to search on google yourself. /A > On 29 Feb 2016, at 21:10, Brian Fischler wrote:

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Ok, I got Onix but I think it does everything except what I need it to do as I am looking for a program that will tell me what is taking up so much space on this computer as there should not be much on it so something is wrong. Thanks, > On Feb 29, 2016, at 3:37 PM, syc20...@gmail.com wrote: >

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Thanks will check out Onux. Going in to about this mac just tells you generally how much of your hard drive is taken up it does not break anything down. > On Feb 29, 2016, at 3:37 PM, syc20...@gmail.com wrote: > > Check what's taking op the most storage "going in to about this Mac. One >

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Check what's taking op the most storage "going in to about this Mac. One utility that I recommend to clean up disk space is Onix. Try Googleing and you could easly find about it. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 29, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > I am a unix

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I am a unix dummy and do nor want to mess around in there. Yes, emptying the trash was my first troubleshoot. Read about what to do on cnet and macworld or one of those sites. > On Feb 29, 2016, at 2:50 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Don't know of one but when is the last

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Don't know of one but when is the last time you dumped the Trash? I would look at that first. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 2/29/2016 11:44 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: Hey all, Had not fired

Re: Accessible Program to Tell Me What is taking up so much space

Just use the du command. It’s a unix command that is available under the hood in terminal. If you need some examples of how to use it from your command prompt type “man du” with out the quotes. This will display a man or manual page. You can use this on the whole disk or sub directories and