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Is there an app that can show whats clogging my HD?
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Take a look at DiskInventory X (will not work in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion), OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report or GrandPerspective to see where your HDD space went to.
Then look at the applications I linked, as you asked for them.
Btw, "memory" is not the same as "hard drive capacity":
What is Computer Memory? RAM vs Hard Drive
RAM vs. Hard Disk
Do a search on this forum for the many threads about "Other". Lots of advice about what it might be and how you can get rid of a lot of "Other" that is taking up your HDD.
Stewart
Even the trial of http://daisydiskapp.com/ will show you what it is. But in fact, these are the local Time Machine backups being done while your computer is not connected to your backup disk.
Maybe. In theory it should but you might have to delete manually if there's been some corruption. Do a backup using Time Machine. See if other reduces. Unless you keep your external HDD connected and on all the time then TM will carry on storing backups and snapshots on your HDD if it's left turned ON. Turn it off. Turn it on again when you want to do a backup.
Stewart
Try daisy disk, figure out what folder is using all your space and once you have that narrowed down we can give you a better answer as to what's taking up your HD.
Well I figured out what it was.
Turns out the "other" is all of my apps in iTunes. I guess I will have to delete them all 1 by 1 so I can clear up space. Is there anyway to install apps onto my phone without installing them to my computer as well?
Turns out the "other" is all of my apps in iTunes. I guess I will have to delete them all 1 by 1 so I can clear up space. Is there anyway to install apps onto my phone without installing them to my computer as well?
I'm not sure because I haven't used my iPhone in like a year but I believe when you connect your iPhone it says something like " You've made new purchases on your phone, would you like to sync them with your computer" or something like that.
I highly doubt that it's 40 gigs of apps - but I'm pretty sure it is local backup snapshot. This was just discussed in another forum. You can either not worry about it - because the system will free up space from local snapshot as needed, or you can turn it off in terminal.
As far as cleaning up your old unused apps - just like old paper files you have at home, you should at some point dump what you're not using. Lots of people get sloppy about files on their system and doing spring cleaning once a year can help drastically - both with your system performance and your life organization.
As far as cleaning up your old unused apps - just like old paper files you have at home, you should at some point dump what you're not using. Lots of people get sloppy about files on their system and doing spring cleaning once a year can help drastically - both with your system performance and your life organization.