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132 questions linked to/from How can I figure out what's slowly eating my drive space?
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User folder on mac OS is empty, but still uses 60GB of hard drive space [duplicate]
I have deleted all the files under User folder, but it still says that it uses ~60GB of space. Real usage is ~2MB. There are no more files to delete. Is there any hidden files i am not aware of. If ...
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How do I find how much disk space a program is occupying? [duplicate]
How do I find out how much disk space a program such as Skype occupies?
My SSD is getting full, and I want to see what can be deleted.
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Movies that I cannot find are taking up 200 GB on Mac [duplicate]
Movies that I cannot find are taking up 200 GB on my Mac. I tried looking for these movies but I cannot find them. I believe that this is being cause by a video editing software I use called "...
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MacBook Air: What taking up all my hard drive space [duplicate]
I have a 128gb MacBook Air running Lion. I am constantly having issues with disc space, but have no idea what is consuming it all. When I look at the disc utility break down, it says about 80% of the ...
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macOS Sierra "System" files eating up disk space [duplicate]
macOS Sierra system is using over 200 GB of storage space on my 250 GB hard drive. I've removed Time Machine backups to no avail. How do I free up space? My current usable space being less than 50 GB ...
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How to find Hard Drive capacity in Mavericks? [duplicate]
I usually check the Hard Drive capacity in the Activity Monitor. But when I checked it, it literally looked different. I selected each tabs, trying to find the information about my disk but to no ...
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What is consuming HDD space on my MacBook Pro? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space?
How do I find out the files that are consuming a lot of space on my MacBook Pro running OS X Lion?
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I keep deleting files but my Macbook Pro hard drive is still full [duplicate]
I have a MacBook Pro (late 2011) with a 500Gb SSD hard drive.
Today suddenly it said that my hard drive was full, so I started removing the files. Got rid of lots of Gigas, even the sleepimage file, ...
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OSX disk space shows 200GB as "other" [duplicate]
I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13" Mid 2014, with a 500GB disk.
I never have to work with large files such as movie editing or anything like that nor do I use time machine backups. After upgrading to ...
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"Other" just ate my hard drive [duplicate]
When I woke up his morning, I had >80 GB of free space on my hard drive. Over the last four hours, in which I wasn't even around, something filled my hard drive completely. I would attach a screenshot,...
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macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 - Missing Disk space [duplicate]
three weeks ago I've installed macOS High Sierra on my MacBook Pro 13" (Early 2015).
I've an internal SSD with about 120 GB (Apple Logic) disk space. Before the update I had about 30 GB of space ...
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Where can I find the downloaded Catalina files to free up the disk space? [duplicate]
I am running macOS Mojave. I've downloaded Catalina, but I regret to install it. The download was completed. Where can I find the downloaded file(s) to free up the disk space?
I haves checked in ...
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"Other" Storage space in Sys Info [duplicate]
I have MBP with Lion. In my Sys Info it says 170.12GB of space is being used by "Other". How do I determine what this Other space is and how to clean it up if possible?
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Can't figure out what is taking up so much space [duplicate]
When I cd /; du sudo du -h -d1 I get a total of about 160 GB (this is on a 256 GB drive). However, when I look at Disk Utility or About this Mac -> More Info -> Storage it looks like I'm using a solid ...
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Freeing disk space with El Capitan [duplicate]
I have had this Macbook pro since a few months and I am trying to download XCode. I have about 12GB free and apparently that is not enough to install the app. What is weird is that I had about 6GB ...