How do I see what my storage is used by?

[cockneyjay]

Hi all,
I'm downloading a couple of things and I keep getting warnings that say I'm almost full in terms of storage. When I check it says that about 90% of it is taken up by "other"

I need to know what I can delete in order to free up some space because I have no idea how I've used up about 300GB worth of space. Is there a simple way of checking where I've used up all my storage. I have no idea what's on my mac that could that up THAT much memory.

I've tied grand perspective but it's found about 20 GB worth of usage in photos and videos and that's about all i can see.

Thanks,

Jay

 

[NukeIT]

Hi all,
I'm downloading a couple of things and I keep getting warnings that say I'm almost full in terms of storage. When I check it says that about 90% of it is taken up by "other"

I need to know what I can delete in order to free up some space because I have no idea how I've used up about 300GB worth of space. Is there a simple way of checking where I've used up all my storage. I have no idea what's on my mac that could that up THAT much memory.

I've tied grand perspective but it's found about 20 GB worth of usage in photos and videos and that's about all i can see.

Thanks,

Jay

Omni Disksweeper


http://www.omnigroup.com/more

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And if deleting things doesn't change the available GB value. Your HDD may be corrupt and so then would need to run Disk Utility

 

[Nickwell24]

DaisyDisk is the program I use. A great visual representation of what's taking up your HD.

 

[Weaselboy]

I need to know what I can delete in order to free up some space because I have no idea how I've used up about 300GB worth of space. Is there a simple way of checking where I've used up all my storage. I have no idea what's on my mac that could that up THAT much memory.

Do you happen to have Time Machine turned on? It can use up a lot of space with local snapshots.

Enter the command below in Terminal and post up the output so we can take a look. This command will show all base folders, including hidden folders, along with the size of each.

sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /

 

[saberahul]

Omni Disksweeper


http://www.omnigroup.com/more

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And if deleting things doesn't change the available GB value. Your HDD may be corrupt and so then would need to run Disk Utility

Yep - awesome free utility.

 

[cockneyjay]

Omni Disk Sweep worked perfectly thank you all very much

 

[Chandrasan]

Do you happen to have Time Machine turned on? It can use up a lot of space with local snapshots.

Enter the command below in Terminal and post up the output so we can take a look. This command will show all base folders, including hidden folders, along with the size of each.

sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /

Hi Weaselboy of California. Hope your home safe during the local lockdown. I'm in Cali too. I'm down to 1.1 GB of 200 on my old mac - and not yet ready to buy a sweet new computer... so I'm hoping you can advise me as I followed your sudo prompt and this is what I got:

0 /.vol


sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /


3 /Applications


1 /bin


0 /cores


1 /dev


1 /home


4 /Library


1 /net


0 /Network


6 /private


1 /sbin


5 /System


166 /Users


1 /usr


1 /Volumes


183 /


183 total


Chandras-MBP:~

What it all say? What's up with me OTHER storage taking up 169 GB o fmy 200 GB

Thanks!
CAT

 

[NoBoMac]

What it says is that it appears that your personal files are using 166GB of space (the /Users line).

Download, install and run OmniDiskSweeper to see exactly where and what in Users is eating up the disk space. Guessing the usual culprits of photos, video, music.

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In the case of the graphical disk usage representation and "Other", yes, can be of little/no use as it's using Spotlight search's index, and that index can be out-of-date or needing to be rebuilt, hence everything in Other category.

 

[Weaselboy]

166 /Users

Give this a go to see what is going on in that users folder.

sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g ~/