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excessive,unaccounted for storage use?!?
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get daisy disk or something like it and go fishing.
alternatively you can do it finder. go into folder options (command-j) and select "calculate all sizes" then apply as default.
give it a few minutes to do the math, sort folders by size, and do some top down processing starting with / and find the offending files.
do you run vmware or parallels?
by the way, not to lecture you but you really should be backing up your system with TM or something like it.
If you're wondering what "Other" category in the storage tab is about, this may help explain: For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:
- Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.
- For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion or later, space may being consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled by entering the following command in Terminal: sudo tmutil disablelocal.
- Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
- Search with Finder to see if the space is being consumed by a very large file or several large files. Adjust the 50GB in the illustration to whatever size you deem appropriate.
- Use OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report, Disk Inventory X, DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to see how space is being used on your drive. Some of these apps may show more detail than others, so try several.
- Check your drive with Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
- Try re-indexing your drive: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes
I did. Turns out there is 12GB mailbox cache, and 9GB app support in library. That explains a lot.
I use SuperDuper for that. I dislike TimeMachine.
Thanks all for your replies!
You might consider Carbon Copy Cloner, as it also backs up the OS X recovery partition, which SuperDuper does not.