Unknown movies appearing in OSX

[ijen0311]

I just got my new computer. I have no movies, but apparently they're taking up space on the hard drive. Anyone have clues as to how to find them, or what they might be?

 

[GGJstudios]

If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion 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, space may being consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled.
  OS X Lion: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs
• 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

 

[ijen0311]

Cool, thanks. I'm still playing around with it, trying to find these 14 GB of movies. Omnidisk didn't find them, but there has to be something I'm missing.

 

[Sylon]

Maybe they are tutorial videos from an app or something? Maybe try searching for just an extension, like .mp4, or .mov.

 

[GGJstudios]

Cool, thanks. I'm still playing around with it, trying to find these 14 GB of movies. Omnidisk didn't find them, but there has to be something I'm missing.

In addition to the previous post, you can use Finder to search for the movies.

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[Dave Braine]

Try Grand Perspective. It shows you where all the large files are:
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/