Harddrive

[jwassel]

my mac has about 250 GB of memory, 75 left available
between music and movies 130 are accounted for, i dont know what i have on my computer that would take up almost 50 more GB

how can i figure this out?

thanks

 

[scienide09]

OS X, along with all of your applications?

Disc Inventory X is a handy app you can use to discover what's using your drive space.

 

[JediMeister]

Software and pictures are pretty much all that's left that I can think of...

Below are some common utilities Mac OS Users can run on the system to get an overall idea of how much disk space is being taken up.
WhatSize is considered Shareware so the full version is $12.99 for the licensed copy.

Disk Inventory X
Grand Perspective
WhatSize

 

[surflordca]

my mac has about 250 GB of memory, 75 left available
between music and movies 130 are accounted for, i dont know what i have on my computer that would take up almost 50 more GB

how can i figure this out?

thanks

Why do people keep referring to there HDD as memory. It is NOT memory

 

[MacDawg]

In addition, you have to consider this in your equation...

Check out the Guide here at MR: Hard Drive Size Discrepancy

Hard Drive Size Discrepancy

Why does my new 500 GB hard drive report it only has 465 GB? Have I been ripped off?

No, you haven't been ripped off. 500 GB = 465 GB, strange as it seems.

The reason is that computers count a "kilo" something as 1024 (binary 2^10) while the rest of the world count a "kilo" as 1000 (decimal 10^3). A 'mega' in computer binary system is 1024 x 1024 = 1,048,576 (rather than decimal 1,000,000), and a 'giga' is 1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 1,073,741,824 rather than decimal 1,000,000,000

This creates a discrepancy of approximately 7% between the number of GB the computer reports, and what is advertised as the drive's capacity in GB. It is important to note that there is no difference in the number of actual bytes of storage - it is only a difference in reporting when the binary 'giga' terminology is used.

A 500 GB hard drive has about 500,000,000,000 bytes (it is never exact, commonly a drive is designed to have more bytes, to allow for a certain number of defective sectors to be mapped out). When counted on the computer, 500 Gb (decimal) = 500 billion bytes = 465.66 GB (binary).

Some propose using a different term, gibibyte (GiB) for the binary figure, however that is unlikely to catch on in the marketplace.

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[Tomorrow]

Have you emptied the trash? Items in the trash take up hard drive space as well, at least until they're emptied.

 

[jwassel]

well i dled Disk Inventory, and it says that about 5 Gigs are taken up by this folder called "Private" but when i search for it it doesnt show up?

 

[Tomorrow]

maybe coz it's private?

 

[obrien234]

Try J Disk Report, it's not as high tech as the other options, but gives a great folder tree view.

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/

I've tried all the other apps, and this is by far my favourite free solution. It should give you the location of exactly where the larger folders are.