Out of storage, but why??

[kaylabenedict]

Please help. I have been trying to figure this out for weeks now.

My macbook pro says I am out of storage space and that I have 164 GB of movies but I cannot find any movies! I ran disk inventory X and attached the results here.

Thank you!

 

[RandomAccessMem]

kaylaybenedict, you seem to have forgotten to attach results. Also, did you check for movies (videos) in 'All My Files' in finder? It may be more accurately defined as videos. I was confused by this at first as well.

 

[Ulenspiegel]

Please download an app called Diskwave (http://diskwave.barthe.ph). It will show each and every folder and file with the exact size. It will help to identify huge files.

 

[GGJstudios]

Please help. I have been trying to figure this out for weeks now.

My macbook pro says I am out of storage space and that I have 164 GB of movies but I cannot find any movies! I ran disk inventory X and attached the results here.

If you're wondering what "Other" category in the storage tab is about, this may help explain:

What is this "Other" in the storage tab? What is eating my space​

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 being consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled by entering the following command in Terminal: sudo tmutil disablelocal.
  About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs​
• Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
• 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

Here are a few resolutions found by others with the same question:

• 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
• 18.45EB of movies shown
• Duplicate movies in iPhoto app

Freeing up drive space in Mac OS X

 

[kaylabenedict]

I'll try to attach again - not sure why the images don't appear.

Yes, trust me, I've looked everywhere

 

[yjchua95]

I'll try to attach again - not sure why the images don't appear.

Yes, trust me, I've looked everywhere

I'd recommend you to use OmniDiskSweeper instead and look through the largest places.

 

[me22]

I'll try to attach again - not sure why the images don't appear.

Yes, trust me, I've looked everywhere

The movies are in your iPhoto Library.

In iPhoto, right click on the sidebar, make a new smart album and there, set the criteria to: Photo > Is > Movie.

In that smart album, delete the ones you don't need, and then make sure to empty the iPhoto Trash.

 

[dusk007]

You probably have made a ton of movies with your camera. They need a lot of space. Delete what you don't need or archive them on an external drive.
You can also reencode them to save space as the camera encodes the movies very inefficiently. If you just want to save 720p movies to watch in a few years but not take so much space.
Get Handbrake and rencode them with
preset slow or slower
Profile: high
Level: 5.0
and set constant quality with RF 23 for good quality and 26 for smaller size with still good watchable quality.
That takes a while but it will shrink the videos considerably. Watching them on a TV with family and friends, you won't be able to tell the difference unless you know exactly what to look for.