How to work out what others is in my storage?

I am having problems, with my start up disk. It always says that it is full. I have some music and photos, but all my movies and tv shows are on my external hardrive. When I have a look at what is taking up my storage it says others. How do I work out what it is to find more space on my MAC book Air.
Thanks,
Anna

See here for answer about the OTHER which is taking up space:
http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
and here:
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
See Kappys excellent note on the rest of “other” files taking up your space:
What is "Other" and What Can I Do About It?

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My mac air says hard drive full and 90% is full of 'other' which I cant work out what 'other' is as i Have transferred most to my external hard drive

My mac air says hard drive full and 90% is full of 'other' which I cant work out what 'other' is as i Have transferred most to my external hard drive.
Do you know how I can tell how large each file is taking up and what my 'other' category could be?
thanks

Initial easy steps to gain disk space:
- Delete all files in the Downloads folder.
Empty the Trash.
- Start iPhoto.
Empty its trash.
Restart.
Backup:
Run a Time Machine (or other) backup since you are about to delete and move files and you may need to recover from any inadvertent mistakes or decisions. You will need one external hard drive for your Time Machine (or other) backup and a second if you plan to offload some files. (See suggestions for where to purchase hard drives at the end of this message.)
For more about backups:
Time Machine Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
Most commonly used backup methods:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3045
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6031
Deleting files:
Then use the free application OmniDiskSweeper http://www.omnigroup.com/more to explore your volume in descending order by size so you can attack the problem from the top down, deleting the largest unwanted files first. Delete with caution and do not delete any system files. Remember to empty the trash after trashing the files.
Additional reference on freeing disk space:
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
Offloading files:
Consider moving some of the no-often-used large files or directories to an external disk. Use ODS again to find them. This will be at least your second hard drive. Your first one(s) is/are for your Time Machine (or other) backup(s). Do not offload files onto a Time Machine disk.
Format the second drive as Mac OS Extended (journaled). Using OWS to find large files/folders and copy them from the system drive to the external hard drive and delete them from your internal drive.
Then  > System Preferences > Time Machine > Options… > Remove the offload HD name from the exclusions list.
Now both your system disk and your external offload disk will be backed up onto your Time Machine disk.
From: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
To move your iTunes Music folder to another disk or partition:
To change the location of your iTunes Music folder, carefully follow the instructions in the AppleCare® Knowledge Base document "iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Music folder."Additional information can be found in iTunes Help.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.thexlab.com/105/ 00000849.html
Laptop users may want to consider having two iTunes libraries: a small library of current favorites on their computer, while their complete library resides on an external hard drive. Utilities like iTunes Library Manager enable you to easily have multiple iTunes libraries you can use with your account. https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7689/itunes-library-manager
To move your iPhoto Library folder to another disk or partition:
To move the iPhoto Library folder to a new location, employ the instructions in the AppleCare Knowledge Base document from http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2506 corresponding to the version of iPhoto you are using. Additional information can be found in iPhoto Help.
Laptop users may want to consider having two iPhoto libraries: a small library of current, favorite photographs on their computer, while their complete library, or archives of older photos are saved on an external hard drive. Utilities such as iPhoto Buddy and iPhoto Library Manager enable you to have multiple iPhoto libraries that you can use with your account.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12175/iphoto-buddy
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7158/iphoto-library-manager
Hardware — Bigger disk/SSD:
OWC sells 120, 240 and 480 GB SSD upgrades for MacBook Airs. A 240 GB upgrade costs $265. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/ . If your Mac is under warranty or AppleCare replacing the SSD will void the warranty.

How to work out what libata portnum . devicenum corresponds to what

Hi I'm having problems with ( I think) one of hard drives (I have 4).
In kernel.log
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: CDB: cdb[0]=0x0: 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x400100 action 0x6
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: SError: { UnrecovData Handshk }
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: sr 3:0:0:0: CDB: cdb[0]=0x0: 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: hard resetting link
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.01: hard resetting link
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.01: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: configured for PIO0
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.01: configured for UDMA/133
Mar 16 09:46:04 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4: EH complete
How do I work out what ata4.00 and ata4.01 correspond to? I looked earlier on in the log and I saw...
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf200 ctl 0xf100 bmdma 0xee00 irq 19
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf000 ctl 0xef00 bmdma 0xee08 irq 19
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata5: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata5.00: ATA-8: WDC WD2001FASS-00W2B0, 05.01D05, max UDMA/133
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata5.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata3.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata3.01: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.01: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F, SB00, max UDMA/100
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata3.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD103UJ, 1AA01113, max UDMA7
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata3.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata3.01: ATA-8: SAMSUNG HD103SJ, 1AJ100E4, max UDMA/133
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata3.01: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.01: ATA-8: WDC WD2001FASS-00W2B0, 05.01D05, max UDMA/133
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.01: 3907029168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata4.01: configured for UDMA/133
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: ata3.01: configured for UDMA/133
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG HD103UJ 1AA0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: scsi 2:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG HD103SJ 1AJ1 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F SB00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: scsi 3:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD2001FASS-0 05.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Mar 16 08:31:01 dan-mainbox kernel: scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD2001FASS-0 05.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Does this mean
ata4.00 is my DVD drive (TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F)
ata4.01 is one of my hard drives (WDC WD2001FASS-00W2B0)
If so this suggests that my DVD drive is causing an error but... why is libata "hard resetting" the link to ata4.01 as well!?

See here for answer about the OTHER which is taking up space:
http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
and here:
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
See Kappys excellent note on the rest of “other” files taking up your space:
What is "Other" and What Can I Do About It?

How do I find what "other" is in my storage on my mac? "Other" is taking up more than half of my storage on my half a year old MacBook Pro?

I recently got a brand new MacBook Pro for my birthday (about 4 months ago). Pop ups have been showing up saying that my disk is almost full. I checked to see what was taking up the storage and it just said "other." This "other" stuff is taking up more than half of the space on my Mac. Does someone know how to fix this?

For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article. If the Storage display seems to be inaccurate, try rebuilding the Spotlight index.
Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation—not the mythical 10%, 15%, or any other percentage. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of the data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) or GrandPerspective (GP) to explore the volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one. Note that ODS only works with OS X 10.8 or later. If you're running an older OS version, use GP.
Deleting files inside a photo or iTunes library will corrupt the library. Changes to such a library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS or GP can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
If you have more than one user account, make sure you're logged in as an administrator. The administrator account is the one that was created automatically when you first set up the computer.
Install the app you downloaded in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the corresponding line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper 2>&-
sudo /Applications/GrandPerspective.app/Contents/MacOS/GrandPerspective 2>&-
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
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The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders, sorted by size. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with the app, quit it and also quit Terminal.

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how do I work out what pages templates have in them ?

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select output
from V$rman_output
order by stamp;
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