Hard Drive Full - But with What?

Question

We find that our iMac HD is full. I did a search for big files, anything over 100,000 kb and found one big whopper: it's called appleuser.sparseimage.
Can I delete this? What is it? Any tips for finding big files that might be stealing lots of room?

Answer 1

Hello sort of a nubee on Imac problems.
I have a 297g capacity drive, after getting info on files I noticed only about 80g that I have used but tried to load new turbo tax program and was told there was no space and had to clear some out.
I have read many posts, used start up disk to fix drive and check for errors. I ran a suggested search in Terminal for large files and found these large, can someone help on how to go about and deleting them?
ran
-rw-r--r--@ 1 Sabino 99M Mar 13 14:01 /private/var/folders/29/29S1udB4Eo0PZ1vY8sfzBk+TI/-Caches-/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 133M Feb 24 15:32 /private/var/db/dyld/dyldshared_cachei386
-rw-r--r--@ 1 502 150M Mar 2 18:35 /private/var/folders/Hf/HfiLkvrWH80vanzV1loHKE+TM/-Caches-/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 160M Feb 18 15:56 /private/var/db/dyld/dyldshared_cacherosetta
-rw------- 1 _installer 251M Mar 10 17:23 /Library/Receipts/db/a.receiptdb
Feb 16 12:12 /private/var/log/asl/2009.02.13.U0.G80.asl
-rw-r----- 1 root 257M Feb 25 21:42 /private/var/log/asl/2009.02.25.U0.G80.asl
-rw-r----- 1 root 296M Jan 25 11:31 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.25.U0.G80.asl.1232910348
-rw-r----- 1 root 782M Jan 24 19:34 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.24.U0.G80.asl.1232849197
-rw-r----- 1 root 1.4G Jan 25 11:05 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.25.U0.G80.asl.1232905733
-rw-r----- 1 root 1.5G Jan 25 09:48 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.25.U0.G80.asl.1232901364
-rw-r----- 1 root 1.5G Jan 25 02:51 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.25.U0.G80.asl.1232876287
-rw-r----- 1 root 1.6G Jan 24 20:50 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.24.U0.G80.asl.1232854442
-rw-r----- 1 root 1.7G Jan 25 07:10 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.25.U0.G80.asl.1232891071
-rw-r----- 1 root 1.7G Jan 25 08:36 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.25.U0.G80.asl.1232896224
-rw-r----- 1 root 1.8G Jan 24 23:52 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.24.U0.G80.asl.1232864778
-rw-r----- 1 root 1.8G Jan 25 04:15 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.25.U0.G80.asl.1232880691
-rw-r----- 1 root 1.9G Jan 25 05:44 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.25.U0.G80.asl.1232885714
-rw-r----- 1 root 1.9G Jan 24 22:26 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.24.U0.G80.asl.1232859051
-rw-r----- 1 root 2.0G Jan 25 01:38 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.24.U0.G80.asl
-rw-r----- 1 root 7.6G Mar 10 17:31 /private/var/log/asl/2009.03.03.U0.G80.asl
-rw-r----- 1 root 41G Jan 24 17:49 /private/var/log/asl/2009.01.23.U0.G80.asl
-rw-r----- 1 root 108G