How do i check and see what is using up all my harddrive space

How do i check to see what is using all of my hard drive space?

I would try OmniDiskSweeper.
Matt

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    I have a 500gb Drive but only 11 free.  Wanted the best way to see what's using up space.  I can randomly hit command I on folders and check that way, but was wondering if there was a way to see a document or spreadsheet, or pie chart of everything taking up space.  Thanks all.

    Not really, no.  I'm sure there's probably a command-line program that might give you similar information, but that's not for the faint of heart.
    If you are feeling brave you could try something like this:
    open
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    [Eliza:~] dreschle% find /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/The\ Beatles -ls | cut -c 48-200 | sort -rn | more
        7169513 29 Jan 15:39 /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/The Beatles/The Beatles 1967-1970/1-13 Hey Jude.m4a
        6881372  6 Feb 07:15 /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/The Beatles/1/21 Hey Jude.m4a
        5192915 29 Jan 15:39 /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/The Beatles/The Beatles 1967-1970/1-06 A Day In The Life.m4a
        4875828 29 Jan 15:39 /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/The Beatles/The Beatles 1967-1970/2-02 While My Guitar Gently Weeps.m4a
        4684951 29 Jan 15:39 /Users/dreschle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/The Beatles/The Beatles 1967-1970/1-08 I Am The Walrus.m4a  ......
    and I see that from all Beatles albums I own the biggest is "Hey Jude" with 7 MB
    If you want to use this command often you could create a shell script, an an apple script or an automator Workflow.
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    Leonie Lionheart

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    In a FORM search box that i have data saved, how can I go and see what is saved and edit it? Sometimes when I'm doing maintenance it all gets deleted and I would like to be able to see what I have saved before it gets deleted.

    Try this - Form History Control extension: <br />
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    How can I check to see if someone is tracking or accessing my Internet activity on my Ipad3 from a separate location?

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  • How do I identify what is using up all my disc space?

    Hi,
    I am about to run out of harddrive space, and am trying to identify where I am using up all my capacity.
    Is there a good utility that I can use to identify candidate files to move over to an external harddrive? Or if not a utility, what do folks in the forum use to keep their 500G drive as clean as possible?
    Thanks,
    --Brian

    Try OmniDiskSweeper, WhatSize, or Grand Perspective - CNet Downloads or MacUpdate.

  • What's using up all my HD space? Ghosts?

    My HD storage space seems to be all used up. Yet when I tally it up manually the numbers don't add up. It seems like there is a large amount of space being used up but it is not accounted for. I'm not talkin about a few MBs, but it seems to actually be about 4-5 missing GBs!
    I should first mention that I use Azureus to download torrents of TV programs on a daily basis because I live in Japan and this is the only way I can watch all my favorite shows save for asking friends and family to tape everything and send it to me.
    On average I d/l and watch about 1GB worth of video each day. After I watch something I then trash it. I've been doing this since the new year started and at that point I had about 8GB of free space to play with. Today, after deleting all files I've watched I seem to have only 2.5GBs left, eventhough I haven't d/led or installed anything else. So...what's taking up this space? Any ideas? Anyone experience something similar to this?
    Please help me.
    EDIT:
    My HD: 27.82 capacity
    Used on HD:
    Apps:910MB
    Library:1.62GB
    System:1.02GB
    Users:14.27GB
    Remaining:2.58GB
    If you do the math I should have at least 10GB remaining, why is it only 2.58GB? Where are the other 7.42GBs at???

    I rebooted and only got a few extra 100 MBs back. I did notice however that my ~User/Library/Logs/Crash Reporter folder is storing 1.07 GBs of crash Logs! Isn't that a little crazy? Is it OK to erase those Logs?
    Anyways, I'm going to try out the programs recommended above. Thanks for the help and I'll post back with how things are going^^!
    EDIT: Ok I used WhatSize...
    When I started it it gave me these numbers:
    Capacity: 27.8GB
    Used:25.2GB
    Available:2.55GB
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    I found some information regarding burning with external CD-RW drives in one of our support articles:
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    I have an iMac running OS 10.4.11. How can I check to see if I have the Flashback Trojan (and remove it, if I have it)? IMy Safari is also crashing frequently. Any suggestions?

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    http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=142064
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    As of sometime after September 10, 2012, at 4:40PM, I have not been receiving any mail.  Not on my iPhone, iPad, iMac, or MacBookPro.  The trouble shooting help on Apple's web site is designed to help ensure my devise settings are accurate.  However, I moved from .Mac to .me and now to .cloud and have operating with no issues for several months on the iCloud.
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    Apple says there is a mail server problem affecting 1% of users.  However, am I one of the 1%?  If I assume I am, wait for the problem to be fixed, and then learn I was not one of the 1% and continue to have mail issues, then I will be more frustrated.

    I have the same problem since yesterday morning. I checked the systems status and still the same. I guess we are the 1.1% who has problem with their email.

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