'Other' category

miikeeyy92 · 11 Oct 2012 at 12:04

Had mountain lion for about a month and a bit now, happened to notice the 'other' category is over 65Gb, which is about 85% of all that I have filled up so far (77Gb).

Where is this all coming from? Someone said it could be sleep images, as I do put it to sleep rather than shutting down, but surely these would be deleted on restart or reboot?

Thanks

PardonTheWait · 11 Oct 2012 at 16:18

I don't know the answer to your question but DiskWave will let you find out how much space is taken up where really easily. It's free

miikeeyy92 · 12 Oct 2012 at 01:48

Thanks, i'll take a look and post some results!

PaulyD · 12 Oct 2012 at 09:14

I believe the sleep image is the size of your RAM so wouldn't be that. It could be time machine backups that haven't been backed up yet but as above that will show you exactly what is taking the space.

miikeeyy92 · 15 Oct 2012 at 11:11

I don't use time machine as my external HDD is NTFS and so won't write to it! (I would format but I have no where to put the data during the format until I go home at xmas! ): )

Diskwave said that i had most of the extra in my documents, and after following it through, turns out that 'other' includes your downloads, and also Parallels which I would have thought came under Apps. But at least I know where it is now!

Thanks.

PardonTheWait · 16 Oct 2012 at 00:12

Diskwave is super handy.