Out of harddrive space? How to free it up?

I am a long time PC user that just recently got a MacBook Pro so I am a newbie.
I am out of space on my hard drive and not sure exactly what is eating up all the volume? I went to About This Mac and looked at the Macintosh HD and it says I only have 28GB out of 499GB available. The piece that is using up lion's share is all yellow "Other".
How do I find out what is causing this? Is there an easy way to determine what file is chewing up my hard drive?

not sure exactly what is eating up all the volume?
Movies & videos can eat up all of your storage space.
OmniDiskSweeper is a free utility that checks HD space.
FreeSpace cost $1 or is a free utility that checks HD space.
SpaceControl is a free utility that checks HD space.

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Running out of harddrive space - here's a fix.

Twice now I've run out of harddrive space on my t500 with a 160GB harddrive installed. The first time I called the IBM support people who were as useful as a chocolate teapot.
This time I turned to the Microsoft forums and finally got it figured out. I don't know if this will get to IBM's tech guys, but perhaps they may want to look into it for their build.
Vista uses an amount of the drive for Restore points and shadow copies of files. Typically this amount is limited to 15% of the drive space. On my copy of Vista, the setting was UNBOUNDED, which is why it gobbled up the entire harddrive.
In XP, this setting was controlled by a UI, in Vista, MS took a huge step forward and implemented a command-line utility to ocntrol this setting. (/sarcasm).
These are the commands to list and set the amount of storage consumed by Vista for restore points and Shadow copies.
vssadmin List ShadowStorage
vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /on=C: /For=C: /MaxSize=5GB
Note that I set mine to 5GB which is substantially less than the default 15% of the harddrive. If you use this, use your own discretion.
The question of course is why I received a system with this set as follows:
C:\Users\Mike>vssadmin List ShadowStorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{a589e9af-cf02-19dd-bec8-001c259b5bc3}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{a589e9af-cf02-19dd-bec8-001c259b5b
c3}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 6.656 GB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 9.108 GB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: UNBOUNDED
Not that I expect IBM will 'fess up, but what the hey.
Edit: My apologies for the random smilies, I couldn't find an option to turn of interpreting some character sequences as smilies.
Message Edited by mpbrede on 03-23-2009 01:03 PM

@mpbrede,
Thanks for the heads-up. Looks like I'm "safe" but this is sure a big chunk of drive space. T400, VB 64, 320G HD:
Shadow Copy Storage association
   For volume: (C\\?\Volume{ed7a5df2-9ee2-11dd-9c63-00218661ac77}\
   Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C\\?\Volume{ed7a5df2-9ee2-11dd-9c63-00218661ac77}\
   Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 26.467 GB
   Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 28.299 GB
   Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 44.494 GB
Z.
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I am running out of disk space, how do I free up some memory?

I am running out of disk space. I think most of the memory is taken up by iTunes with music and TV shows. How do I free up some memory?

Allendb,
If you are either new to the Mac OS, or like me, are a non-techie, just a small thing to understand. Memory in all ways, denotes RAM, while storage space is your SSD/iHD.
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Enjoy!

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I was wondering if someone could walk me through using my ext HD after I pulled all of music to the HD how after I delete the music my harddrive how can I get the ext HD to recognize my library in itune.

There is a support article on transplanting your iTunes library, here:
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Don't use icloud to archive/save photos, these must be saved to a computer.
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My mac is runnug out of disk space. Do /i need to by external drives? how much memory should i get

My imac is running out of disk space. I download a lot of media from itunes. The HD movies and TV shows use so much space. Should I switch to the cloud, clean up my memory or buy an external memory drive? If i get an external drive how much memory is suggesyed? 1TB, 2TB or more?

Buy an external hard drive on which to save your media. The drive should be large enough to handle your entire iTunes Library plus how much you would anticipate adding to the library over the next few years. Then backup your existing library to the external drive: iTunes- Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive.
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How to set the limit for the warning 'running out of disk space'

I am wondering if there's a way to set the number of GB before I get the system warning 'running out of disk space'.
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My guess is that you want to lower the limit. IMHO I think the limit is alreay too low.
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How do i find how much free space my iMac has? Its running MAC OS v10.6.8

I can't see anywhere where I can find out how much free soace my iMac has, any help much appreciated!

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How to free up space on my mac

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lyndaapple wrote:
I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and want to upgrade to Yosemite, which requires about 5.7 GB. When I go to About this Mac, I see that I have 4GB memory. But to upgrade I think I need 5.7 RAM. I don't know difference between GB in memory and RAM. How do I find out how much free space I have and if it's enough to download Yosemite? I have 2.4 GHz processor speed for my MacBook 7.1. Also, first time I tried downloading, I ran out of gigabytes from my broadband account. I bought more ( 6 GB) and then the downloading stopped and never completed? Could I have run out of gigabytes on broadband account again?
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