Way to tell which folders take up the most HD Space?

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z400central

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Dec 27, 2006

• #1

Hello All,

Was interested in if there is a way to see what folders take up the most HD space.

Thanks!

 

Mitthrawnuruodo

Moderator emeritus

• Dec 27, 2006

• #2

Whatsize or OmniDiskSweeper should help you with that... 🙂

 

WildPalms

macrumors 6502a

• Dec 27, 2006

• #3

Disk Inventory X is my favorite for when you need to find large files or just need to see what is chewing up all the space.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/diskinventoryx.html

Let me know if this is to your liking. 😉

 

furious

macrumors 65816

• Dec 27, 2006

• #4

what is the program that cleans out all the Pre-installed apple software on New macs. My parents brought a new mac mini and i would like to find them some more space. the only speak English so they don't need all the languages, they don't need garage band or anything like that. 😱

 

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simsve

macrumors newbie

• Dec 27, 2006

• #5

Terminal

Try the following command from a terminal window: sudo du -h -d 1 /

It might take a little while as the command creates a recursive summary from the root. It may look something like this:

JoeDoes-computer:~ user$ sudo du -h -d 1 /
59M /.Spotlight-V100
9.1M /.Trashes
1.5K /.vol
2.7G /Applications
1.5K /automount
6.6M /bin
0B /cores
2.0K /dev
2.6G /Library
2.0K /Network
2.5G /private
4.4M /sbin
1.8G /System
91G /Users
490M /usr
8.0K /Volumes
101G /
JoeDoes-computer:~ user$

 

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aspro

macrumors 6502

• Dec 27, 2006

• #6

furious said:

what is the program that cleans out all the Pre-installed apple software on New macs. My parents brought a new mac mini and i would like to find them some more space. the only speak English so they don't need all the languages, they don't need garage band or anything like that. 😱

Click to expand...

You're after Monolingual.

 

furious

macrumors 65816

• Dec 27, 2006

• #7

thanks. will do it on the week end