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.
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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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