O yes, John, I did. As soon as I saw Bill's answer, I downloaded it on both of my computers. I also thank you for thanking me to have asked the question. I am always good at asking, not so good at answering. Marta On Oct 18, 2004, at 15:41, John Robinson wrote:
> Marta, > > Did you not see my response concerning "What Size" from Version > Tracker? There is a free utility by that name that will do EXACTLY as > you are wanting. I downloaded it, ran it and it does as you wish, > completely. Below is the link. > > http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21149 > > John R. > > > On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:33 PM, Marta Edie PB wrote: > >> Thanks, Mike and Henri, >> I did look at the indivdual folders in the "Get info" section, and I >> guess I could add up one by one. And dear Henri, do you know how >> afraid I am of those arbitrary letters and signs in unix? I need a >> course in terminal before I even try to wade into those waters. ( But >> I will eventually , after reading and comprehending Pogues' >> introduction to it). What I actually had in mind is a tool or a >> command that would open the HD and then list one by one the >> applications, the extensions (from 9) the homefolder in toto and then >> each folder separate, and all the space that is occupied by that >> stuff that has to be there for the running of the machine as well as >> the total space on the machine and what is still available. If >> anybody could make a tool like that------ or an applescript >> ---------!! It seems it would help others as well. >> Marta >> On Oct 18, 2004, at 13:35, Henri Yandell wrote: >> >>> >>> Sounds like a tool that should exist. An OS X centric diskspace >>> analyser. >>> >>> On the command line side, if you open the terminal, you can do: >>> >>> >>> df -h >>> >>> which will show you the space used on all mounted systems >>> (partitions, cd's, usb thumbdrives, .dmg files etc). >>> >>> Also: >>> >>> du -sh */ >>> >>> in your home/default directory will show the MB used by each >>> directory there. That pretty much does break down to the information >>> you're asking for, but probably not quite. >>> >>> Going back to the applescript talk, it sounds like something that >>> could be put together quite easily if we can identify which parts of >>> the hard-drive would be of interest. >>> >>> /Applications >>> /Users/x/Library >>> /Users/x/Documents >>> /Users/x/Desktop >>> /Users/x/Pictures >>> /Users/x/Movies >>> /Users/x/Music >>> /Users/x/Sites >>> >>> what else? The iDisk stuff in .Mac (I don't have it)? >>> >>> Taking that, and either calling the Folder or system("du -sh"), we >>> could then have an applescript report which displays the >>> information. >>> >>> Hen >>> >>> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Mike Garton wrote: >>> >>>> The best way I know of to do this is to go within your HD and >>>> select you home folder. Don't open it just select it. press apple >>>> then i on your keyboard and that will open the Get info window >>>> pertaining to that folder. It will tell you there how large that >>>> folder is. You can also go inside you home folder and select a >>>> folder within you home folder and using that same keystroke to get >>>> information on your pictures folder, documents folder etc. You can >>>> perform this operation on any folder on your hard drive or even >>>> individual files, to find out its size permissions and other info. >>>> You can also go to file and Get Info instead of using the keystroke >>>> (apple-i). >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> On Oct 18, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Marta Edie wrote: >>>> >>>>> Folks, i have a question : How does one ascertain how full one's >>>>> HD is? I know it tells me on my desktop 57.47GB, 57.42 free, but >>>>> that does not indicate how much of what is where, how it is >>>>> allocated on the disk space and what have you. I would sort of >>>>> like a blueprint to tell me how much space my personal files take >>>>> up. how much my pictures , all the applications etc., so I would >>>>> know how much I can load on this thing, whether I should trash >>>>> stuff etc. Over the year I have just happily added , but have no >>>>> idea when the system will creak of overload. A little explanation >>>>> would be greatly appreciated. >>>>> Marta >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be October 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 4439 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20041018/371bfb8e/attachment.bin
