I am trying Grand Perspective and the other suggestion of Daisy Drive, and see which one best fits my needs and my style.
Will report back once I've tried them both.
Thanks for the suggestions. If there are any others out there, please let me know.
Cheers,
Mary Ellyn
--- In macbook@yahoogroups.com, Tim O'Donoghue <tjod@...> wrote:
>
> I use an app called Grand Perspective http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ to do just that. It lets you see where the big files, or large numbers of files, are clustered.
>
> Tim O
>
> On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:07 AM, MaryEllyn wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I would also like to get rid of temporary files and I am not sure how to do that.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mary Ellyn
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>
