Yes, it was extremely easy to use. I used several different looks, including file types. I also liked that you could see the pathway of the files that you were evaluating at the bottom of the visual map. It was easy to delete files. And I moved about 80G of video files off to an external hard drive. Most of that was involved with one project that I was suspecting was gobbling up my hard drive and it was.....
Again, thanks. Great tip.
cheers,
Mary Ellyn
--- In macbook@yahoogroups.com, Tim O'Donoghue <tjod@...> wrote:
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> Glad that worked well for you. It's helped me find some files that were elusive by other means. I like that you ca right-click and show in Finder, too.
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> On Sep 4, 2010, at 3:45 PM, MaryEllyn wrote:
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> > I cleaned up my computer today using Grand Perspective and I was able to either delete or move about 100Gs of files. As I suspected it's my video and slideshow files that are taking up lots of space. Also, my iPhoto library, although I didn't delete any photos from that yet.
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> > Thanks for the great tip about Grand Perspective. It was extremely useful to detecting large files and also duplicate files....
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> > Cheers,
> > Mary ellyn
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> > --- In macbook@yahoogroups.com, Tim O'Donoghue <tjod@> wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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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> >>> Thanks in advance for your help!
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> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Mary Ellyn
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