Where is my disk space going "others"

[Sound Evolution]

Dear All,

Since a while my disk space is getting eaten insanely. And I have no idea what is happening. I keep running out of disk space. I already hardly have any movies or any big files left. Yesterday I erased another 5GB. of movies, but just one day and all my free extra 5GB space was gone too

What is going on here. I can't erase anything anymore.

 

[RKpro]

I don't know what's eating up your new free space. Maybe downloading files from cloud services? (iCloud, Dropbox, etc..)

But you can use an app like jDiskReport or Disk Inventory X to map your disk usage.

http://www.mactip.net/tip-check-what-is-taking-up-the-most-space-on-your-hard-drive-with-jdiskreport/

If you scan your entire disk / , it will visually display which folders are taking up all the space, and you can drill down to subfolders.

Best not delete anything out of /System and /Library unless you know what you're doing, but the files in /Users and /Applications is your stuff.

 

[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: 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

Freeing up space in Mac OS X

 

[garbeth]

Whoh! That's a whole lot of other getting used up!