How to find and clean out movie files?
Keep getting the "startup disk almost full" memo. I've had this problem for a few months and I've done just about everything for temporary fixes. I've gone through downloaded files, iPhoto and iTunes and browser history- cleaned out huge chunks of each of these AND emptied trash multiple times. I uninstalled iMovie, deleted many precious videos I spent hours making, and my movies folder on finder (under favorites) only shows that its taking up 2.68 GB, but about this mac storage page shows that movies takes up 39 gig????? insanity, Is that even possible???????????? (I'm angry) i've searched for .mov, .m4v and .avi files on my mac and it shows that all 4 files i have for any of those categories don't even take up 2 gig. what is going on??????? i also have this "other" category showing up on about this mac as taking up another 30 gig of storage. i've read all the discussions and done everything but buy some stupid software that will tell me what i already know. i don't use time machine or icloud (but i will if it will give me more storage space, but i assume that it will do just the opposite).
1. Start up in Safe Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
2. Re-index Macintosh HD.
Do this twice.
Spotlight reindexing will take a while to finish.
System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
About “Other”:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
8. Try free OmniDiskSweeper. This will give the storage size details of the items.
Select Macintosh HD and click “Sweep Selected Drive” at the bottom.
https://www.omnigroup.com/more
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