No doubt using the software shown by Ronni will help
BUT am I missing something here ?
I would have thought that the very first simplest first check would be
double click on drive ( or use finder ) to show the hard drive index
Make sure you have the size column as part of the display
( if not showing go View - view options - check show size )
click on " size " at the head of the size column so you sort by size
( click size again if you want largest at the top )
and see what you have ! ?
Bob
On 07/08/2009, at 11:56 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote:
Thanks Ronni I will try one of these.
I am baffled why the sudden increase in disk usage but when I find
the culprit it may become clearer.
Barry
iMac 5,1
Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz 667 MHz
2GB 667 MHz
150GB HD
OS X 10.5.7
On 06/08/2009, at 3:05 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 06/08/2009, at 2:46 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote:
For the last few months the available space on my HD has remained
fairly static at about half the total (~80GB). I have made no
recent downloads of any large applications or other files but
suddenly my HD is almost full (147GB). My remote back up disk
which has done a full back up followed by daily incremental
backups under CCC only shows 70GB used.
I have done the obvious deletions of caches and trash and searched
through the main folders for very large folders with no avail.
Has anyone any thoughts as to what may have suddenly filled my
hard drive and is there an easy way to find large files or folders
without wading through them all?
Regards
Barry
iMac 5,1
Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz 667 MHz
2GB 667 MHz
150GB HD
OS X 10.5.7
Hello Barry,
Download a copy of 'disk inventory X' - it maps your HDD and shows
you in a visual sense what exactly is taking all of your space. If
its stuff that you don't need/want then you can delete it.
It's a good program to have ... and its free.
<http://www.derlien.com/index.html>
WhatSize is another you can use to see what is using your HD space.
<http://whatsize.en.softonic.com/mac>
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.5.7
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