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139 GB of "other" on my hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="ed724" data-source="post: 1462302" data-attributes="member: 9265"><p>Type in the following: (change orange text to your user account name)</p><p></p><p>cd /Users/<span style="color: SandyBrown">"your account name here"</span> return</p><p></p><p>nohup du -sh * > /Users/<span style="color: SandyBrown">"your account name here"</span>/Desktop/space.txt &</p><p></p><p>Wait about 2 or 3 minutes then open the file space.txt which should be on your desktop. You'll see a list of the sub directories and the amount of space they are using. </p><p></p><p>example:</p><p></p><p>4.0K #.profile#</p><p>1.3G ATVimage</p><p> 16K Application Support</p><p>8.0K Applications</p><p> <strong>7.7G Desktop</strong></p><p> <strong>100G Documents</strong></p><p> <strong>8.0K Downloads</strong></p><p> 52K Emergency Records.edf</p><p>8.0K Faxes</p><p>4.0K IEC 61966-2.1 Default RGB .icc</p><p> 19G Library</p><p> <strong>17G Movies</strong></p><p> <strong> 38G Music</strong></p><p>4.0K NavisphereLocale.xml</p><p>4.0K NavisphereNAPersistence.xml</p><p> <strong>18G Pictures</strong></p><p> 0B Profiles</p><p>2.8M Public</p><p>632K Sites</p><p> 24K Total Solar Eclipse 8:21:17</p><p> 28M Utilities</p><p> 20K emc</p><p> 64K shsh</p><p> 36K umbrella0.log</p><p></p><p>typically you can remove items from the directories in bold above. If you know how to use terminal with root access, you can see the rest of the disk. If not then it's too dangerous to venture there without knowing what you're doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ed724, post: 1462302, member: 9265"] Type in the following: (change orange text to your user account name) cd /Users/[COLOR="SandyBrown"]"your account name here"[/COLOR] return nohup du -sh * > /Users/[COLOR="SandyBrown"]"your account name here"[/COLOR]/Desktop/space.txt & Wait about 2 or 3 minutes then open the file space.txt which should be on your desktop. You'll see a list of the sub directories and the amount of space they are using. example: 4.0K #.profile# 1.3G ATVimage 16K Application Support 8.0K Applications [B]7.7G Desktop[/B] [B]100G Documents[/B] [B]8.0K Downloads[/B] 52K Emergency Records.edf 8.0K Faxes 4.0K IEC 61966-2.1 Default RGB .icc 19G Library [B]17G Movies[/B] [B] 38G Music[/B] 4.0K NavisphereLocale.xml 4.0K NavisphereNAPersistence.xml [B]18G Pictures[/B] 0B Profiles 2.8M Public 632K Sites 24K Total Solar Eclipse 8:21:17 28M Utilities 20K emc 64K shsh 36K umbrella0.log typically you can remove items from the directories in bold above. If you know how to use terminal with root access, you can see the rest of the disk. If not then it's too dangerous to venture there without knowing what you're doing. [/QUOTE]
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