Need more storage space

[dpsheetz]

Thanks for the help in advance,

I have a 3 year old mac book air 120 gig. 90% of my memory is being used up by what is classified as (other). Does anyone have a clue as to what other is. I use this computer for pictures, the web, email and some small invoices and maybe a letter or two. I have thousands of pictures that is using maybe 10% of the space.
No music or videos. Please help. I recently installed cleanmymac2 and picked up 14 gig but need more free space.

Da

 

[Dr Charter]

Thanks for the help in advance,

I have a 3 year old mac book air 120 gig. 90% of my memory is being used up by what is classified as (other). Does anyone have a clue as to what other is. I use this computer for pictures, the web, email and some small invoices and maybe a letter or two. I have thousands of pictures that is using maybe 10% of the space.
No music or videos. Please help. I recently installed cleanmymac2 and picked up 14 gig but need more free space.

Da

Download an app called Daisy Disk. It will let you investigate exactly how the space is being allocated.

 

[maflynn]

Download and use OmniDiskSweeper. It will provide a sorted list of what's consuming your space.

If you have Time Machine activated then its saving some of the backups on your local drive - local snapshots is what they call it. Your sleep image in /var/vm consumes some space also.

I like Omnidisksweeper because its free (yay) and it produces a nicely sorted list.

 

[TomBlack]

Are you using time machine?

If you are then go into time machine setting and turn it off close the windows and look again how does you space look now. If it's alright then tick it back. I have to do this all the time.

 

[Weaselboy]

Thanks for the help in advance,

I have a 3 year old mac book air 120 gig. 90% of my memory is being used up by what is classified as (other). Does anyone have a clue as to what other is. I use this computer for pictures, the web, email and some small invoices and maybe a letter or two. I have thousands of pictures that is using maybe 10% of the space.
No music or videos. Please help. I recently installed cleanmymac2 and picked up 14 gig but need more free space.

Da

That colored bar uses the Spotlight index for its readings, and it sounds like your Spotlight index may be corrupted and providing bad readings. Run the command below to reindex Spotlight then check again to see what the readings are.

sudo mdutil -E /