Ok, so here's what happens, I used mactheripper to rip two dvd's, one using my external drive, the other my internal, well, usually go to my external, well I guess they went to my normal HD, but searching everywhere resulted nothing, are they hidden? what could have happened? I tried all types of search tecnhiques
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Help 15gb harddrive space disappeared
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First, have you tried restarting just for the heck of it? If it's a temp file somewhere, that might delete it.
Usually, I'd go through each folder and do a get info, looking for the one that appears bigger than its supposed to, then repeat until I've narrowed it down to the one I want, but this won't work for files you don't own, nor invisible files like /etc, if the things you're looking for ended up in one of those locations. Worth a shot, though. The same process can be done in the terminal to get everything, but I can't tell you the command you want.
If that doesn't work, you'd be better off looking at the documentation of MacTheRipper and seeing where it puts stuff so you know where to go with the Terminal to find the offending files.
Usually, I'd go through each folder and do a get info, looking for the one that appears bigger than its supposed to, then repeat until I've narrowed it down to the one I want, but this won't work for files you don't own, nor invisible files like /etc, if the things you're looking for ended up in one of those locations. Worth a shot, though. The same process can be done in the terminal to get everything, but I can't tell you the command you want.
If that doesn't work, you'd be better off looking at the documentation of MacTheRipper and seeing where it puts stuff so you know where to go with the Terminal to find the offending files.
Try using WhatSize app?
It's a nifty little freeware app that just goes through your HD and shows you the size of things...
What's nice, is you can then sort by what's taking up the most space and drill down inside of the folders... Here's the link on Version Tracker:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21149
I would think those files would show up pretty distinctly...
Good luck!
It's a nifty little freeware app that just goes through your HD and shows you the size of things...
What's nice, is you can then sort by what's taking up the most space and drill down inside of the folders... Here's the link on Version Tracker:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21149
I would think those files would show up pretty distinctly...
Good luck!
Ok, so I tried that program and it said I have used up the amount that my HD is claiming, but when it went to categorize all my files into sizes, it was short that 15gb, what could be the deal??? I restarted, reset PRAM, Permission etc! Help!
/ - on disk 37.1 GB (39,125,447,629 bytes), 287013 files and 74762 folders
While below that it says: 55.7gb capacity, used 53.2 can anyone please help???
/ - on disk 37.1 GB (39,125,447,629 bytes), 287013 files and 74762 folders
While below that it says: 55.7gb capacity, used 53.2 can anyone please help???
Check this thread out:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/133514/
And scroll down to Yellow's post with terminal commands. This should pretty easily lead you to an answer. They're probably in one of three places:
/tmp
/library/caches/
~/library/caches/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/133514/
And scroll down to Yellow's post with terminal commands. This should pretty easily lead you to an answer. They're probably in one of three places:
/tmp
/library/caches/
~/library/caches/
Delocalizer will clear up some space for you. However, it just deletes extra languages so it wouldn't find that file.
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:~ Bstein$ "df"
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s3 116948016 111159088 5276928 95% /
devfs 196 196 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [112] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [156] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [156] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
632K ./.dvdcss
4.0K ./.mplayer
0B ./.Trash
35M ./Desktop
319M ./Documents
180M ./Incomplete
124M ./Library
0B ./Movies
25G ./Music
1.9G ./Pictures
16K ./Public
28K ./Sites
28G .
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:~ Bstein$ cd /
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:/ Bstein$ sudo du -h -d 1
34M ./.Spotlight-V100
0B ./.Trashes
1.0K ./.vol
2.5G ./Applications
1.5K ./automount
3.5M ./bin
4.8M ./Cocktail.app
0B ./cores
2.0K ./dev
ç4.8G ./Library
3.5K ./Network
76M ./private
2.2M ./sbin
I can't really understand that, can someone help??
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s3 116948016 111159088 5276928 95% /
devfs 196 196 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [112] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [156] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [156] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
632K ./.dvdcss
4.0K ./.mplayer
0B ./.Trash
35M ./Desktop
319M ./Documents
180M ./Incomplete
124M ./Library
0B ./Movies
25G ./Music
1.9G ./Pictures
16K ./Public
28K ./Sites
28G .
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:~ Bstein$ cd /
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:/ Bstein$ sudo du -h -d 1
34M ./.Spotlight-V100
0B ./.Trashes
1.0K ./.vol
2.5G ./Applications
1.5K ./automount
3.5M ./bin
4.8M ./Cocktail.app
0B ./cores
2.0K ./dev
ç4.8G ./Library
3.5K ./Network
76M ./private
2.2M ./sbin
I can't really understand that, can someone help??
Okay, so you lost 15gb of space, right? In that printout is a list of folders on your computer and their size.
You have a 60GB hard drive, right? And it looks like you're showing about 30GB free, which you feel should be closer to 45?
Can you tell me if those specific numbers are correct?
If all of that is correct, there is only one place on your hard drive where there can be 15GB of files -- the Music folder -- because that's the only subfolder that has a size bigger than 15GB.
You have a 60GB hard drive, right? And it looks like you're showing about 30GB free, which you feel should be closer to 45?
Can you tell me if those specific numbers are correct?
If all of that is correct, there is only one place on your hard drive where there can be 15GB of files -- the Music folder -- because that's the only subfolder that has a size bigger than 15GB.
Almost correct, except that I feel like I should have 18gb free and it shows 2gb. When I click on my hard drive, it says capacity 55.77 gb, available 2.32gb, used 53.45gb when I feel like I've only used 40gb
When I try to import a 6gb file, it doesnt let me
When I try to import a 6gb file, it doesnt let me
Okay, thank you. What version of OS X are you using? There's something not right about your output from du. Let me show you mine:
According to the filesystem, that number at the bottom -- the one that's just "." -- 31GB in my case, and 28GB in your case -- is essentially all the files that are on the hard drive.
So that number doesn't seem to match what you're getting from "Get Info" in finder. On my HD, I have 31GB used, 37GB formatted capacity, and my free space listed by Finder is consistent (6GB).
But also I don't see some very important directories listed in your output. You should have a ./Users folder. Is it not shown because the text wrapped around? Try scrolling up in Terminal and looking for it, and figure out how big it is.... This folder contains the homes of all users on your account. In the case in that other thread, the files were hiding in there.
Code:
mkrishnan$ cd /
mkrishnan$ sudo du -h -d 1
Password:
603M ./.Spotlight-V100
0B ./.Trashes
1.0K ./.vol
2.4G ./Applications
170M ./Applications (Mac OS 9)
1.5K ./automount
5.2M ./bin
0B ./cores
0B ./Desktop Folder
2.0K ./dev
2.5G ./Library
3.0K ./Network
16M ./opt
1.6G ./private
2.2M ./sbin
1.5G ./System
169M ./System Folder
0B ./TheFindByContentFolder
0B ./TheVolumeSettingsFolder
21G ./Users
487M ./usr
4.0K ./Volumes
31G .
mkrishnan$According to the filesystem, that number at the bottom -- the one that's just "." -- 31GB in my case, and 28GB in your case -- is essentially all the files that are on the hard drive.
So that number doesn't seem to match what you're getting from "Get Info" in finder. On my HD, I have 31GB used, 37GB formatted capacity, and my free space listed by Finder is consistent (6GB).
But also I don't see some very important directories listed in your output. You should have a ./Users folder. Is it not shown because the text wrapped around? Try scrolling up in Terminal and looking for it, and figure out how big it is.... This folder contains the homes of all users on your account. In the case in that other thread, the files were hiding in there.
when I try to redo it, running os x tiger, recently (3 weeks reinstalled clean)
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:~ Bstein$ sudo du -h -d 1
632K ./.dvdcss
4.0K ./.mplayer
0B ./.Trash
35M ./Desktop
319M ./Documents
180M ./Incomplete
133M ./Library
0B ./Movies
25G ./Music
1.9G ./Pictures
16K ./Public
28K ./Sites
28G .
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:~ Bstein$
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:~ Bstein$ sudo du -h -d 1
632K ./.dvdcss
4.0K ./.mplayer
0B ./.Trash
35M ./Desktop
319M ./Documents
180M ./Incomplete
133M ./Library
0B ./Movies
25G ./Music
1.9G ./Pictures
16K ./Public
28K ./Sites
28G .
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:~ Bstein$
brsboarder said:
This is your user directory only. It doesn't look like the files you're looking for are in there. Make sure to do the "cd /" first and then the sudo du....
Last login: Fri Nov 18 19:27:20 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:~ Bstein$ cd /
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:/ Bstein$ sudo du -h -d 1
Password:
34M ./.Spotlight-V100
0B ./.Trashes
1.5K ./.vol
2.5G ./Applications
1.5K ./automount
3.5M ./bin
4.8M ./Cocktail.app
0B ./cores
2.0K ./dev
4.8G ./Library
3.5K ./Network
146M ./private
2.2M ./sbin
19G ./Volumes
57G .
Welcome to Darwin!
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:~ Bstein$ cd /
brandon-steins-ibook-g4:/ Bstein$ sudo du -h -d 1
Password:
34M ./.Spotlight-V100
0B ./.Trashes
1.5K ./.vol
2.5G ./Applications
1.5K ./automount
3.5M ./bin
4.8M ./Cocktail.app
0B ./cores
2.0K ./dev
4.8G ./Library
3.5K ./Network
146M ./private
2.2M ./sbin
19G ./Volumes
57G .
so based on that, I'm guessing its in the ./volumes? i know that I have about 26gb of music, and 1-2gb of pictures but how do i look in volumes?
/Volumes would include all volumes (external drives, internal drives, cd/dvds, floppies, network drives, et cetera), Here, lemme show you:brsboarder said:
Code:
jane@mordor:/ $ du -hd 1
188M ./.Spotlight-V100
0B ./.Trashes
3.0K ./.vol
2.7G ./Applications
1.5K ./automount
3.5M ./bin
0B ./cores
2.0K ./dev
91M ./Developer
4.9G ./Library
2.0K ./Network
522M ./opt
1.0G ./private
2.2M ./sbin
1.1G ./System
8.7G ./Users
493M ./usr
228G ./Volumes
248G .You could try doing a search to see if there is any folder created within a certain timeframe (when you ripped the DVD)
Hmmmm...so did you have any DVDs in the drive or external drives attached when you did this? If not, your volumes folder should be close to empty, like mine, and not have a high volume like Janey's. Try looking in there. Perhaps mounted copies of those DVDs that you imported have taken residence in there? 
Deleting large files: what is "Previous System Localized"?
I used "WhatSize" and saw I have six gigs of hd space under "Previous System Localized" ... what is that and can I delete it? It was shown in red, like the system folder. Anyone know what the heck that is?
Hey, I was trying to start a new thread after searching out this one... don't kill me for opening an old thread! Hit the wrong buttons I guess
I used "WhatSize" and saw I have six gigs of hd space under "Previous System Localized" ... what is that and can I delete it? It was shown in red, like the system folder. Anyone know what the heck that is?
Hey, I was trying to start a new thread after searching out this one... don't kill me for opening an old thread! Hit the wrong buttons I guess
California said:
The Previous system folder is there becuase you did an Archive an Install at one time. Its just your old System Files from before the reinstall. IT is there incase you need some prefs, Or Older system files that got reinstalled from the installation.