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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: Ellis Vener on July 01, 2014, 08:41:49 pm
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I am working with a late 2009 27" 2.66Ghz iMac running OS X 10.9.3
It is fitted with 16GB RAM. the boot drive is a 240GB OWC 3G SSD. Out of the 239.2GB available I can account for everything EXCEPT for ~47GB of the ~58GB in my user folder.
Issue: When I go to SSD > users > user name and use the 'get info" tool it tells me that there is 58GB in that folder. I go into the user name folder and run a "Get Info" on each folder I see there. Here's where it gets curious: the sum of those folders is only 11GB. What makes up the other ~47GB I can't see - the contents appear to be hidden.
Any ideas as to what might be going on? How I can find what is in those 47TB? I hate the idea that my SSD is filled up with stuff I cannot account for.
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Did you check the contents of hidden directories like Library/ ? I have 13 GB in mine. To see this in Finder hold down the option key and you should see "Library" in the Go menu.
Alternatively try running "du -sh *" in the terminal to see a summary of disk usage by directory (this should show hidden files). Or you can use a program like GrandPerspective (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net) which will display file disk usage graphically.
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Thanks Stephen,
I'll give those a go in the morning.
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go w/ GrandPerspective.
du output isn't sorted in numerical/size order so it can be hard to sift through the sea of ASCII output. You may also ahve a
large amount of stuff in .Trash or ~/Library (like emails, caches, etc)
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Thanks Howard. I have grand perspective but do not use it much. I have already sorted out the .Trash and ~/Library folders.