I do have several back-up 1.5 T drives....one for time machine and one for backing important presentation and client information. It's the picture and video files, that are taking most of the space up. And I suspect that there are some temp files and orphans with those monster files that are just hanging out.
I will check out Daisy Disk. Any other recommendations would be much appreciated.
cheers,
Mary Ellyn
--- In macbook@yahoogroups.com, Rob Gendreau <rob.gendreau@...> wrote:
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> I like Daisy Disk for finding large files an analyzing your disk usage. And there are applications that can find orphans, temp files and other stuff that can be eliminated.
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> But if it's rapidly filling, as you said, then perhaps you need to upgrade the drive. I think 1TB 2.5" drives are going for about $125, which is pretty reasonable.
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> Rob
> On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:07 AM, MaryEllyn wrote:
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> > I have a 17inch MacBook Pro that I bought last year in the July timeframe. The hard drive is 500G and I am now finding that I am rapidly filling up the hard drive. I have lots of photos and do lots of slideshows and some other video.
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> > Does anyone know of an easy way to assess the type and size of files so that I can either get rid of them or move them to an external hard drive? I want to be able to search for my big, huge files (which are probably video or files associated with a slideshow), assess whether to dump or move, etc.
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> > I would also like to get rid of temporary files and I am not sure how to do that.
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