How do I find what is on my hard drive in the other category

How do I find what is on my hard drive in the other category?

It's everything that does not fit in the definec categories - data, email, system files, etc.
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    You could download and use WhatSize to see what may be eating up the space.
    With a 40 GB hard drive, you need to keep at least 6 GB free in order to avoid problems.

  • How do i find what is using my hard drive space?

    My hard drive space on my Macbook pro has suddenly filled up. How do I find what is using up the space so that I can see what I need to delete?

    Hi s,
    This is an old list, but some should still be current:
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    OmniDiskSweeper: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/download/
    GrandPerspective: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/#download
    SupaView: http://twinside.free.fr/supaview/
    WhatSize ($12.99 and includes a duplicate finder): http://www.whatsizemac.com/
    DaisyDisk: http://daisydiskapp.com/
    http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html

  • How do I backup my HDD in dual hard drive configuration (the other is an SSD)?

    I have 2 hard drives in my Macbook Pro 15" early 2011. I think people are becoming more familiar with this arrangement: the boot drive is the SSD located in the original hard drive bay and my old 500 GB hard drive is in a data doubler in the optical bay.
    I'm trying to replace the 500 gig drive with 1TB drive i bought today. Any ideas how to clone the old 500 gig onto the new one?
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    download and install carbon copy cloner - free - and use it to do the clone.
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  • How to I find a compatible, more powerful hard drive for my macbook 13 inch late 2008?

    How to I find a compatible, more powerful hard drive for my macbook 13 inch late 2008?

    There are many sources for compatible 2.5" laptop SATA interface hard drives and SSD's.
    I've used Other World Computing (www.macsales.com) for a number of upgrades, and highly recommend them if you're in the US. OWC also posts helpful videos on YouTube showing step by step removal and installation instructions and the tools required for most Mac models. If your old drive is still functioning, but you're simply running out of space, you might also consider purchasing an upgrade kit that includes an external 2.5" drive enclosure with USB interface. Then you first install the new drive in the external enclosure and 'clone' the contents of old drive to it, then swap the old drive for the new one, and use the old drive in the external enclosure as a backup drive, to test new software and OS upgrades, or to store video, photos, and audio.

  • How do I import Bookmarks from my old hard drive to the one in my new mac?

    How do I import Bookmarks from my old hard drive to the one in my new Mac? The old drive is installed in Bay 2 of my new Mac.

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  • How to find what's on your Hard Drive.

    I was wondering how to find out what is on your hard drive. I have an issue where I open up evrything that is inside my hard drive and select get info. Everything like library and users and such add up to 58 gigabytes but then my hard drive actual info says that I have used 99 gigabytes. How do I find the other stuff on my hard drive? I would love to have any help with this, thanks.

    First off, have you emptied the trash lately? You could have files in there which will still take up space on your hard drive until you empty it. There are also a number of invisible files, but they shouldn't even come close to how much space you are missing. I would think that if you empty the trash, you will recover much of the space you are missing. If not, then you have an issue with your hard drive. You can run disk utilites on it and see if there are any problems. If there are issues, disk utilities can not repair the boot drive. You will have to boot off the install cd. Once it fully boots up, go to the (I believe, tools menu and select the disk utilities option. You will now beable to select your internal drive and repair it.
    Glor

  • How do I backup manually my macbook pro hard drive to the time capsule hard drive?

    I am new with Mac and I am trying to move some files from my hard drive to the time capsule manually. I know it does automatically, but there some files I want to keep permanently.

    When the drive is available in the Finder, drag the files to it.
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  • Finding what programs are accessing hard drive

    Recently, my Mac Mini has refused to auto-sleep (manual sleep works fine, though occasionally I wake up to find it's on). I've tried all the "usual" things and, just now, simply sat there and listened. After the set sleep period, the monitor went off but I heard the hard drive "access" for a brief period. For the next period, every 10-20seconds, there was brief burst of activity (talking less than a second, mmaybe one read or write process). I don't know how I could track what processes are accessing the hard drive, but if I could, I could finally track down the bandit that's keeping my Mac awake. Anyone know of a way I could accomplish this?

    Nevermind. I found the offending program. It was Western Digital's "Button Manager". I have a Firewire My Book, so I'll see if I can uninstall the program.
    I'd still be interested if there's a utility to track which programs access the HDD, but I consider this problem "answered" now

  • How do I find my airport extreme connected hard drive?

    I've connected a hard drive to my airport extreme...but it doesn't appear in my devices list in Finder or on my desktop...what am I doing wrong?

    In addition to Kappy's comments, make sure that the drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)  and that you are using a powered USB hub since the port on the AirPort Extreme is under powered.
    You won't find the drive under Devices in the Finder.
    Instead, look for your AirPort Extreme icon under the SHARED heading on the left of pane when you open the Finder and then click on the AirPort Extreme icon to display a folder representing your drive in the right hand side of the window.
    Double click the folder to mount the drive on the desktop.

  • Finding what sucked up my hard drive?

    any suggestions on locating what file, is filling up my hard drive? i suddenly only have 8mb free on my 1tb, i had 177gb free a couple weeks ago, i know i didn't fill that myself. i think i have a log file sucking it up or something. any suggestions on finding it?

    well, the only file i can find that i didn't put there, is this one
    /home/urmom/.kdemod4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend/soprano-virtuoso.db
    but its only 2.4gb.....and after checking directory sizes in /home/ with du, its not adding up to the amount of space that df is reporting used.....i tihnk i'm going to run fsck and see what happens

  • How do i find extra space on my hard drive?

    My hard drive is full.
    How do I find the largest files, so I can delete or move to external hard drive.
    Now running on 525.8 MB disc space....HELP!

    Also, See Here for Freeing up Disc Space
    http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
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  • How do I check what RPM my current hard drive is?

    Hi I am unsure how to find out the rpm of my hard drive- could anyone offer any advice? Thanks

    Hi
    Usually this should be mentioned on the label which is placed on the HDD.
    You can also use an 3rd party hardware diagnostic tool like Everest Home Edit or Sandra Tool which scan the notebooks hardware and provide the details about single parts.
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  • How do you know what type of file is included in the 'Other' section?

    This is in regards to the capacity section in the summary tab of my ipod info. I have reached full capacity and cannot add any more songs to my ipod so would like to delete any unnecessary files. I have deleted all photos, most movies and TV shows. Only have a few movies and music videos in the Movies section.
    Is there any way of finding out which files are included in the orange 'Other' section? Help!

    My son is having this same problem. He only has 64 songs on his iPod Touch so far, but the "other" space has almost filled the iPod. He has no photos, other than the usual album artwork, no videos, notes, contacts, etc. and has erased all podcasts. We don't see "enable disk use" on the Summary page when he connects the iPod to iTunes. So we don't know if disk use has been enabled or not. I also can't find it in the Help topics. Where do we locate the disk option to see if it's turned on? He doesn't want to Restore as he will lose the upgrade and have to purchase it again. He uses a PC, if that makes a difference.
    Thanks for any insight.

  • How to move from a "recovered data external hard drive" to the new Computer?

    Computer 1's hard drive crash and all programs and data were recovered professionally and sent to me on an External Hard Drive.  Computer 1 was on Windows 7.  I can fun the program off of the External Hard drive fine, when connected to my my new Computer.  I click on the .exe file and it pulls up the catalogue as it should.  All off of the recovery drive.
    The new Computer, is on Windows 8.1.  How do I get the Adobe Catalogues moved/copied to the new Computer?  
    I redownload Adobe 10 onto my new 8.1 Computer from the Adobe website.  Using the new download, I was able to open the Catalogue on the External Drive (F).  Cannot find a way to "relocate" the Catalogue to the new computer.  The pictures have already been copied to the new computer.
    Please help!!!!!   Desperate not to lose the organization (tagging/dating) etc in 30,000 pictures+.
    Kay

    Before we can give a solution, we need more information and we must be clear about the details of the recovery.
    From your post, I assume that the external drive contains a copy of your picture files, with probably exactly the same folder path. I think that that path is identical in Win7 and Win8 (it was not in XP).
    You have reinstalled Photoshop Elements 10 in your new computer.
    So the main point is : what about your old catalogs ? It's quite possible that the professional recovery has also made a copy of those.
    You'll have to search the external drive for one or several folders containing a 'catalog.pse10db' file.
    If you find one or several, select the newest in date (or the biggest), the folder containing it is the catalog you are looking for.
    If you don't find one, be sure that the explorer is set to show hidden files. Without catalogs, you can't restore your organization
    Now, when you have found the catalog (the folder), you can do this test. With PSE and Organizer closed, double click on the 'catalog.pse10db' file. That should open the organizer with the catalog. Since the files are not in the same location as before, all links in the catalog will be wrong : different drive identification and perhaps different folder structure. That test should show you the thumbnails (the catalog cache in the folder should have been recovered; if not it's not that important, the thumbnails cache will be recreated automatically).
    Now, how to 'reconnect' all files, that depends on what you want to do: keep them in the external drive or copy them back to the main internal drive. The problem will be either to update the catalog database to point to the new location or to recreate the same drive identification as before : letter and drive serial number, exactly same folder tree. We can discuss those options when you have made the first test.
    If that goes well, don't worry about the location of the catalog : you can move it either from the catalog manager or manually.

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