Hidden hard drive space

Willis · 1 Feb 2012 at 09:43

Have a 27" imac with a 1TB hard drive. I've always had about 300GB free on it and was having a spring clean last week to free up more space and yesterday it said that its nearly full :confused:

Ran a program called Grand Perspective that is telling me there is 310GB misalliance free space. I cant seem to find it on my drive.

Any ideas where it could be hidden :confused:

dav3evans · 1 Feb 2012 at 15:45

Could you run Onyx and see if that can free up the space for you? I think you can run cleanup scripts through that and it might help with the space issues:

Can haz a download here: http://onyx.en.softonic.com/mac

Willis · 1 Feb 2012 at 16:04

dav3evans said:
Could you run Onyx and see if that can free up the space for you? I think you can run cleanup scripts through that and it might help with the space issues:

Can haz a download here: http://onyx.en.softonic.com/mac

Wont work with Lion

dav3evans · 1 Feb 2012 at 16:17

Ohh massive boo. Sorry mate I didn't pay attention to the sys reqs...and haven't used it myself for a while.

How long have you had it for? Might be worth giving your system a reinstall? 300GB is quite a lot...could be worth it?

fez · 1 Feb 2012 at 16:30

Have a look at daisydisk. Lovely piece of software that tells you exactly where all your disk space is being used.

http://daisydiskapp.com/

dav3evans · 1 Feb 2012 at 16:36

That looks awesome...even just the way it seems to work. I'll give that a download as well =]

Willis · 1 Feb 2012 at 18:59

fez said:
Have a look at daisydisk. Lovely piece of software that tells you exactly where all your disk space is being used.

http://daisydiskapp.com/

Ace, used that program and found that VLC streamer was using it had the same file in a hidden folder with 340 GB :eek:

No more VLC streamer to my iPhone

Thanks Again

uniQ · 1 Feb 2012 at 22:03

Onyx works fine on Lion, just make sure you download it from the developers site:

http://www.titanium.free.fr/download.php

fez · 1 Feb 2012 at 23:51

Willis said:
Ace, used that program and found that VLC streamer was using it had the same file in a hidden folder with 340 GB

No more VLC streamer to my iPhone

Thanks Again

Glad to hear you fixed it buddy. I wondered how I was losing space at an alarming rate only to find that Spotify was caching my collection to the tune of 11gb. I didn't even have any offline playlists!

I do love the way daisydisk displays all the information in such a beautiful and easy to navigate manner.

dav3evans · 2 Feb 2012 at 09:40

Me too, I spent a good 15 minutes just navigating through my files yesterday, watching all of the charts pop up and fan out. Great app.

Vonhelmet · 2 Feb 2012 at 13:41

Heh. All those apps, and I'd probably just use du in a console :cool:

fez · 2 Feb 2012 at 14:31

Vonhelmet said:
Heh. All those apps, and I'd probably just use du in a console

The console can do most things that programs achieve. We still use finder and co. though.