Where is all my hard drive space

[busterbluth]

My hard drive space steadily decreases each week without adding any significant files.

People suggested it was my back ups, but as shown below, I don't think this is the reason based on the picture attached.

I ran a disk map utility, and in my personal folder which as all my data including documents, iTunes, drop box and all that, it is taking up 109 GB, but only 60 gb is actually accounted for in the utility. Does anyone know where these hidden files might be?

Any help would really be appreciated, I am running out of room. Thanks!

 

[vmachiel]

Try using an app like Grand perspective: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net to find large files and folders.

 

[Weaselboy]

My hard drive space steadily decreases each week without adding any significant files.

People suggested it was my back ups, but as shown below, I don't think this is the reason based on the picture attached.

I ran a disk map utility, and in my personal folder which as all my data including documents, iTunes, drop box and all that, it is taking up 109 GB, but only 60 gb is actually accounted for in the utility. Does anyone know where these hidden files might be?

Any help would really be appreciated, I am running out of room. Thanks!

Run the command below in Terminal and post up the results so we can take a look. That will show all the base folders and space used by each in GB. You will be asked for your password and it takes a couple minutes to run.

sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /

 

[GGJstudios]

Does anyone know where these hidden files might be?

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

Freeing up drive space in Mac OS X