I've never used omnisweep so i cant help you there. Disk inventory X is a free program i have been using on all my macs for years to see what is filling up my drives.
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I've never used omnisweep so i cant help you there. Disk inventory X is a free program i have been using on all my macs for years to see what is filling up my drives.
http://www.derlien.com
If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion/ML storage tab is about, this may help explain:
For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:
- Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.
- For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion or later, space may be consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled.
- Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
- Check the System Memory tab in Activity Monitor to check page outs and swap used. If swap used is significant, restart your computer and track that value under your normal workload. If you have significant page outs under normal use, you could benefit from more RAM.
- Search with Finder to see if the space is being consumed by a very large file or several large files. Adjust the 50GB in the illustration to whatever size you deem appropriate.
- Use OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report, Disk Inventory X, DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to see how space is being used on your drive. Some of these apps may show more detail than others, so try several.
- Check your drive with Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
- Try re-indexing your drive: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes
- Encrypted drive
- Time Machine backup files and needed disk repair
- App filling log file
- App or file was 89GB
- Drive needed to be re-indexed
- Time Machine backup file
- Large app cache file
- Garageband files and video podcasts
- Oversized email being duplicated
- Another email issue
How OS X and iOS report storage capacity
Other = space
Thanks so much! I have a weekend project now.
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Thanks! Will try this one.
If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion/ML storage tab is about, this may help explain:
For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:
Here are a few resolutions found by others with the same question:
- Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.
- For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion or later, space may be consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled.
- Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
- Check the System Memory tab in Activity Monitor to check page outs and swap used. If swap used is significant, restart your computer and track that value under your normal workload. If you have significant page outs under normal use, you could benefit from more RAM.
- Search with Finder to see if the space is being consumed by a very large file or several large files. Adjust the 50GB in the illustration to whatever size you deem appropriate.
- Use OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report, Disk Inventory X, DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to see how space is being used on your drive. Some of these apps may show more detail than others, so try several.
- Check your drive with Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
- Try re-indexing your drive: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes
Freeing up space in Mac OS X
- Encrypted drive
- Time Machine backup files and needed disk repair
- App filling log file
- App or file was 89GB
- Drive needed to be re-indexed
- Time Machine backup file
- Large app cache file
- Garageband files and video podcasts
- Oversized email being duplicated
- Another email issue
How OS X and iOS report storage capacity
Thanks so much! I have a weekend project now.
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Thanks! Will try this one.
stuck
My computer is a school-issued computer and I cannot download any programs at all. So, I don't know what to do, because I have only had my computer for about two months and it keeps saying that it's full and I am constantly deleting files that I need on accident, I don't know what to do! What is a startup disk? It sounds like the first of many disks of storage because "start"up disk. What is it, is there more room beyond the startup disk? I NEED MORE ROOM WITHOUT DOWNLOADING A PROGRAM AND I AM STUCK!!!!
Sincerely,
A person in need of help
My computer is a school-issued computer and I cannot download any programs at all. So, I don't know what to do, because I have only had my computer for about two months and it keeps saying that it's full and I am constantly deleting files that I need on accident, I don't know what to do! What is a startup disk? It sounds like the first of many disks of storage because "start"up disk. What is it, is there more room beyond the startup disk? I NEED MORE ROOM WITHOUT DOWNLOADING A PROGRAM AND I AM STUCK!!!!
Sincerely,
A person in need of help
Just wanted to share what we discovered where I work. It appears that there is an issue in Microsoft word that has been causing our Macbook Airs to fill their storage up. The auto recover feature is not working correctly on some installs. When we installed Office 2016, the issue stopped.