Try using DaisyDisk http://www.daisydiskapp.com/
This will scan your hard disk for all files, hidden or not and will display them so you can see what is taking up what. When I bought my ssd and put it in, found it was full almost straight away. Using this found my laptop had stored over 100GB + in the .trashes folder (hidden on my comp) even though the trash was supposedly empty. After getting rid of this all was good again. On Jun 11, 4:03 pm, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote: > Pretty sure I've seen the reason for apparently missing disk space before but > can't find the explanation. Short story; > 250GB disk - 90 unused, Finder reports 149GB used but Disk Inventory X shows > only 87.8GB used with a further 60GB as 'space occupied by other files and > folders' (presumably these are hidden). > > Seems like a lot of space occupied by these hidden files/folders. What can > need such space and can it be easily reduced? I'm curious as trying to check > net space before transferring a large photo library to this MacBook Pro. > > -- > Tony Crooks > ---------------------------------- > 53 Mendip Avenue • Eastbourne • BN23 8HP > Mob: 07590508079 > Tel: 01323-460789 > <mailto: [email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
