What's taking up so much space in my MacBook Pro

[galaksy]

I have 1TB of storage. Even if I delete all the movies that are listed under "All My Files" it doesn't seem to be that much. Where can I see what is taking up how much space?

 

[Meister]

For a start:

--> about this mac --> storage

 

[Hieveryone]

Is it an SSD? Sometimes the storage meter doesn't update after deleting stuff.

 

[sjinsjca]

Run Disk Utility. Verify the disk. You might have some orphaned clusters. Nothing to worry about if so... You'd just need to boot into the recovery partition and run the repair procedure in Disk Utility there.

 

[Burning Radio]

Did you empty the Trash yet?

 

[galaksy]

Movies is only taking 200GB and “Other” is taking up 580 GB. But I don’t know what that Other is.

It says it was found corrupt and need to be repaired, so I am repairing it now…

 

[galaksy]

I repaired it but still I don't know what the "Other" is. Is there some sort of app you can download to find out?

 

[Trvlngnrs]

Disk Inventory app will tell you whats on your hard drive.

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Disk Inventory app will tell you whats on your hard drive.

Here's the link:

http://www.derlien.com/

 

[Barney63]

I repaired it but still I don't know what the "Other" is. Is there some sort of app you can download to find out?

Other could well be local Time Machine backups.
There is a thread that explains how to clear them somewhere.


Barney

 

[chenderson2]

Other could well be local Time Machine backups.
There is a thread that explains how to clear them somewhere.


Barney

Oh, yes. This will eat up a lot of storage memory. However, it is a "reserve" usage and will be overwritten if need be. I hate it, because it makes it look like you have used up all your memory.

 

[galaksy]

I found four .iso disk images that are about 46.5 GB each. I wonder what it is.

The names are: VWBS-1399 etc (the four numbers are different for each .iso)

 

[bobcan]

Hmmm.. I will go with __

I found four .iso disk images that are about 46.5 GB each. I wonder what it is.

The names are: VWBS-1399 etc (the four numbers are different for each .iso)

Hmmm.. I will go with 'Torrent Downloads' quite likely.. I have NO idea what you may get a s a result of letting others 'at yor computer' as such.. mayeb nothing... or maybe ___ ~ ~ Someone Wiser than me will surely Chime In here to let us know their experiences!!