Disc full, disc full

Hi all,
I have 750 gb mac book pro.
The message is "disc full".  In fact I have used 450 gb and do not understand where are the rest 300 gb. Any help?
It is happened with the IPad too - there are some " other files" after usage of 1 month of the device that keep  a good share from the capacity. Then  I restore the Ipad and these selfarising files disapesred. Can I restore some how the mac book too ?

fane_j wrote:
Nikolay Sabev wrote:
Yes I am.
It is not good form to use more than one identity in this forum. Stick to one of them.
Disc Utility program shows me this.
The important value at this impoint is not how much is used, but how much free space you have. If you have less than 1GB, you have an urgent problem, which you need to solve right away.
Get a couple of 8MB thumb drives, boot in Safe mode (which clears some caches, and thus gives you a bit more space), and archive or delete items from your Home folder (only from your Home folder). You can also archive and delete apps you don't use. You need to have at least ~5GB free to work with (if you want to use Finder to archive data to DVDs, you need at least ~10GB to be on the safe side). Once you do that, you can reboot and start investigating with ODS or similar utilities where your disk space has gone and how to manage it.
I would suggest that the OP use a couple of 8GB thumb drives, 8MB won't get rid of much.

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