Searching for large files?

[kat.hayes]

When I go to the Storage tab of about this Mac it shows that almost half of my 500GB SSD is taken up by Other files. How can I search my Mac for individual files that are of a certain size, maybe 500MB or larger? Can this be done?

Thanks.

 

[brookter1]

(In Yosemite -- can't remember if this works in previous releases) try...

In Finder, click on All My Files in the sidebar, then select View > Arrange > Size (ctl-cmd-6), then View > As List (cmd-2).

It should show you all your files, sorted by size and grouped into bands by size (e.g. 100MB to 1GB).

If the individual file sizes aren't being shown, then right-click in the bar above the list (e.g. on 'From 100MB to 1GB') and select Size from the drop-down list.

Hope that helps...

 

[Fishrrman]

Here's a small, free app that will very quickly show you which folders/files are consuming the most space (in plain English):
http://diskwave.barthe.ph

Just launch it.
You'll see what to do next.

 

[Weaselboy]

When I go to the Storage tab of about this Mac it shows that almost half of my 500GB SSD is taken up by Other files. How can I search my Mac for individual files that are of a certain size, maybe 500MB or larger? Can this be done?

Thanks.

That storage graphic is notoriously messed up, especially on Yosemite. Run the command below in Terminal and that will reindex Spotlight and correct the storage readout. Wait about 30 minutes or so for the reindex to complete, then you should see the Other amount display correctly. It will like get messed up again though.

sudo mdutil -E /

 

[Hughmac]

Here's a small, free app that will very quickly show you which folders/files are consuming the most space (in plain English):
http://diskwave.barthe.ph

Just launch it.
You'll see what to do next.

Likewise there is also Disk Inventory X - http://www.derlien.com/
and which is also free √

Cheers 🙂

Hugh

 

[Aabby]

hello, there is an Application in App store, it could search and find your large files in several folders or whole hard driver , and show in a pie chart. It's name is Large File Detector. You can search it in Mac App Store.

 

[ocabj]

Just use find. Standard *nix utility.

man find

find <path> -type f -size +n[scale]

Example:

find . -type f -size +1G (finds any file in current directory and in all sub-directories with size 1Gigabyte or larger)

 

[patternjake]

All My Files > Sort by Size, all the big files will be top of the list.