Whats taking up the hard drive
Ok heres the deal. I have or had a corruted sparse image.(I will never EVER use the unstable program again) I did something to get the stupid thing to mount but it was now empty inside. So I logged onto the now "fixed" account and turned off file vault for it. Then I deleted the account after I saw it was now blank in it then deleted the account. It turned it into a small dmg file but I deleted it. The result didnt help as if its somewhere there but now hidden. Trust me the space wasting thing still consumes my hard drive. I know because the sparse image was 63 some GB's. Yeah yeah I shouldnt have gotten that big but why is it still wasting it? I want the free space again
Lol it was the first account I made on this computer/admin. It tried to be sneaky to make it sneaky to make itself invisible. I did a terminal command
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES
after I delete it I will put it back by doing the command
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool NO
I am still use to the OS version still that I grew up in so I had to do a search cause OSX is still fresh to me ^^;;;
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