How can i tell what is taking up most room on my hard drive?

my hard drive is almost full and i am trying to see what is taking up the most space in order that i can make more room on my hard disk drive

Try a program such as Disk Inventory X or OmniDiskSweeper.
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My computer has been messing up for a while, giving me the message "startup disc almost full". I only have 4 gb free space now, after throwing all my photos and music onto external drive. What is making my disc so full? All the rest of my files are text? How can I figure out what is taking up so much space? Thanks

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drag and drop affair; you would be making copies on
some other media, but could be leaving duplicates or
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How can I tell what is taking up space on my HD

I am a PC switcher. Even though it has been over a year it is still new to me. I noticed today that my hard drive only has 8.5 gig left on it. I find that hard to beleive. Neverthless, how can I find out what is taking up the bulk of my space? Is there a utility or something?
Also, I know I have some movies, in my ituns. Can I put the movies on my external and keep the music on my HD?

Basically, the DMGs if any are just a shot in the dark. I store stuff on my Mac as .dmg files, it's just a disk image. But unless you use the sparse method you 'might' end up creating a DVD image with only a few files on. So you have 4.38GB which is as far as the finder is concerned is accounted for even if it's unused.
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Desktop 6.4Mb
Docs 376 KB
Downloads 58.6MB
Library 139 MB
Movies 160KB
Music 3.8MB
Pictures 306.9MB
Public 0KB
Sites 40KB.
Now my music and important data are on a separate internal drive so that if I have to take the Mac in for repairs or do a complete erase and reinstall of the OS then the data is untouched.
Also, shutdown and restart. then once started up open Activity Monitor and see if anything has eaten drive space that you use or whether its hidden activity.
Anything not look right to you on yours?
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