Why is my hard drive filled up? Question about Mac. Pic included

[Blackhawk556]

Ok, so I'm pretty good with computers but this one got me. Look at the picture below and tell me what the "other" category consists of. My hard drive is almost full but I have no idea why I have 142GB of "other".

[DaveInOroValley]

Other may be dmg files (disk images) if you saved or created them over time which can be large but in the end it's everything else not categorized which also can be large.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3302870?start=0&tstart=0

[Casual_Shooter]

Not sure if this applies in your case, but found this article that might help.

http://www.mac-forums.com/blog/lost-harddrive-space/

[ocabj]

Use du to figure out where all of the data is at.

cd to your home dir, run a 'du -sh *' and let it crunch the numbers and you'll get an idea what sub-dirs in your homedir are the largest. Then you can use du to drill down into each dir as you see fit.

[Coded-Dude]

is it mislabeling your porn as Other instead of Movies?


open finder; Command+F to bring up finder search; modify settings to look for large files; clean house.

[Blackhawk556]

is it mislabeling your porn as Other instead of Movies?


open finder; Command+F to bring up finder search; modify settings to look for large files; clean house.

what's porn?



/s

[Blackhawk556]

Other may be dmg files (disk images) if you saved or created them over time which can be large but in the end it's everything else not categorized which also can be large.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0

thanks for the link. I ended up finding out about OmniDiskSweeper by following one of the links. This programs is awesome. Shows you folder by folder how many gigs each is using.

Found out my phone backups were using 87GB and Virtual box was using another 25GB. No I'm down to 44GB of "other". I'll keep searching for stuff I don't need.

Thanks