Double question about storage/sorting?

[JakobAloudMadge]

Hi, I have a rMBP "13 and it's pretty new (a few weeks old), and I've filled up my hard drive way faster than I thought I would, so I thought I'd delete a few unnecessary items. I searched what items I thought I could do without, but instead of finding a list of useful items (movies, music, etc.) I found a BUNCH of webpages, as well as the movies and music sprinkled in. If you're confused, I attached a picture of what I'm talking about.

I also don't know WHAT is taking up so much space. Is there a good free program I can install that help like "ok, torrents are taking up so and so GB, music is taking up so and so GB" and so on, so I can find out what's taking up memory so I can delete it?

I'm sorry if these questions are really confusing, but I really hope some of you have answers . Thanks!

 

[8080532]

try this before downloading anything. I am against downloading apps to solve problems...

click on the apple icon on the top left of your screen.
click on about this mac
click on more info...
click on the storage tab.

hope that helps.

 

[throAU]

try this before downloading anything. I am against downloading apps to solve problems...

click on the apple icon on the top left of your screen.
click on about this mac
click on more info...
click on the storage tab.

hope that helps.

If you're on lion or later this will mislead you by reporting time machine local backups.

I've got an app at home which will give you details, cant remember the name of it off the top of my head. it is freeware.

 

[thundersteele]

discinventoryX

Also, the local backups are _not_ a problem. They are eventually deleted, and the space is freed up if necessary.

 

[8080532]

If you're on lion or later this will mislead you by reporting time machine local backups.

I've got an app at home which will give you details, cant remember the name of it off the top of my head. it is freeware.

he says its a new 13" rMBP. ML comes default installation.

 

[lagisibuk]

maybe you can try doctor cleanup, search from apple store
it may can help you

or you can start clean install for MAC OS.

sorry if my answer make you confuse

 

[priitv8]

discinventoryX

Also the WhatSize app is very handy in visualizing what consumes your storage bytes.

 

[Interstella5555]

Hi, I have a rMBP "13 and it's pretty new (a few weeks old), and I've filled up my hard drive way faster than I thought I would, so I thought I'd delete a few unnecessary items. I searched what items I thought I could do without, but instead of finding a list of useful items (movies, music, etc.) I found a BUNCH of webpages, as well as the movies and music sprinkled in. If you're confused, I attached a picture of what I'm talking about.

I also don't know WHAT is taking up so much space. Is there a good free program I can install that help like "ok, torrents are taking up so and so GB, music is taking up so and so GB" and so on, so I can find out what's taking up memory so I can delete it?

I'm sorry if these questions are really confusing, but I really hope some of you have answers . Thanks!

While my personal feeling is that you're torrenting WAY too much Kylie Minogue be healthy for anyone, I'm a little confused what you expected to find there. The "web pages" are from your history and likely aren't taking up more than 20k or so on your machine at the most, videos, music and photos will take up the most space (in that order) so I would start there, even if you delete a thousand cached web pages you're not going to clear out more than a 100MB, max.

 

[sonicrobby]

Omnidisksweeper is free and might be what youre looking for.

 

[Astroboy907]

Also the WhatSize app is very handy in visualizing what consumes your storage bytes.

+1 for diskinventoryX and what size. Use them both just for this very purpose. Well, not really. I don't torrent Kylie Minogue

 

[JakobAloudMadge]

Bump.

 

[snaky69]

Bump.

It is frowned upon to bump your own thread here.

Freeing up disk space, especially on a SSD like the retina's has no effect whatsoever on performance. Unless you're actually running out of space, I wouldn't bother.

 

[takeshi74]

Not just frowned upon but against the rules.

https://macrumors.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

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