Any way of seeing where most disc is used?

[micke1967]

Hi I have moved into a new iMac using migration tool from a Time Machine backup...And I am a bit suspicious about the amount of disc space used..
Are there any way of finding out what folders and/or files that take up the most disc??

Or a report like display of folders and the amount of disc they hold??

I have CleanMyMac3 but haven't found a way of seeing this so..any help..
best regards Micael

 

[gian8989]

Check info about the mac and then go to storage. There you should be able to manage files and see if there is any file/software that use a lot of space.

 

[Fishrrman]

Download the small free app named DiskWave:
https://diskwave.barthe.ph

Then, just open it.
You'll see what to do next.

Hint: go to the prefs and choose to make normally-invisible files VISIBLE.

 

[theluggage]

Are there any way of finding out what folders and/or files that take up the most disc??

My absolute favourite for this was the free Disk Inventory X:
http://www.derlien.com/
...which gives a beautiful visualisation of what is eating your disc space, although you have .

Sadly it hasn't been updated in years (OS X 10.3 or greater...) and I've just discovered that it crashes on my new iMac :-( :-( :-(

There's something similar called GrandPerspective in the App store for not a lot of money (not as good as DiskInventoryX was, IMHO).

There's also DaisyDisk which uses a different type of visualisation (which I don't find nearly as intuitive).

 

[bplein]

Hi I have moved into a new iMac using migration tool from a Time Machine backup...And I am a bit suspicious about the amount of disc space used..
Are there any way of finding out what folders and/or files that take up the most disc??

Or a report like display of folders and the amount of disc they hold??

I have CleanMyMac3 but haven't found a way of seeing this so..any help..
best regards Micael

run the following command in a Terminal session:

du -mx / | sort -n | tail -n 2000

That will show the disk/directory usage in MB of every directory from /, sort it by capacity, and show the last 2000 entries. On an SSD this will run quickly but on a HDD it can take some time (the more files and directories, the longer it takes).

You can substitute g for m (du -gx) to display it in GB.

 

[micke1967]

great