Assistance deciphering HD storage

[scouser75]

Hi guys,

I've just had a look at my storage on my Mac Pro and need help deciphering it please. From the data below, it seems I have a lot of movies stored, however, I've checked my Movies folders and I don't have any at all stored on 'Mac pro'. I do have a few on 'Media'. And none at all on 'Media II'. So why does it show as me having used storage for Movies?

 

[mcaswell]

Did you try clicking "Manage"? That should let you see some of the files in question.

 

[Honza1]

This category assignment is bit arbitrary. MacOS may consider some file types "movies" even though you may not. Also, this accounting does not care where the files are located.

 

[mikzn]

Did you try clicking "Manage"? That should let you see some of the files in question.

great suggestion - recently my MBP suddenly got full and it was easy to clear about 200 g of duplicates and unwanted video files and moved one of my Picture libraries to an external drive.

I used the "manage files" then clicked "reduce clutter" and was able to see all the largest files - can be sorted by "size" or "kind"

 

[scouser75]

Thanks guys. Unfortunately I'm on El Capitan so don't have the Manage option.

 

[mcaswell]

Thanks guys. Unfortunately I'm on El Capitan so don't have the Manage option.

I used to frequently use an App Store app called Spacie (it's not 64 bit, so I can't use it anymore)... it worked great for quickly homing in on where your storage was being used. There are several similar apps available.

 

[simon lefisch]

Take a look at Daisy Disk. It will show you exactly where all files are located on your five. It’s does cost a couple bucks but we’ll worth it IMO. If you want a free version, Disk Inventory X does the same but doesn’t have as “pretty” of a view showing where files are stored.

 

[scouser75]

Thanks Simon. Free works for me too as I won't be using this too often..... I hope!