Hi Daniel and Rosemary, I have a free web app Disk Inventory X - it is very good at showing you where everything is. It is amazing the clutter that can build up - and this application presents in a nice user friendly way to drill down the levels to see what junk is cluttering up your drive. When you get it and run it - you must give it a bit of time to scan the selected drive before you’re presented with the representation of all the stuff you have.
At the same time a lot of caution should be taken in not indiscriminately deleting stuff you need to keep - especially system related. Pete. > On 29 Oct 2020, at 9:15 pm, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: > > Hi Rosemary > > That “storage” part can sometimes get a little lost, so it just dumps things > into one spot. > Best way is to have all the folders in List View and turn on “Calculate All > Sizes” (from View menu - Show View Options. > Then let it calculate folders. You can then narrow down where a lot of space > may be used. > (Some can be in hidden folders as well, especially if you have back ups of > iPhones/iPads etc. (and old models, as it saves them all). > Also, if you have iPhoto Library and Photos Library (in Pictures) then this > can take up more room than needed. > > That’s a fairly “quick” way to get a rough idea of where it may be. Then can > work through it. > (Sometimes not always an easy thing to narrow down straight away). > > Another Application that can help with it sometimes is WhatSize - > https://www.whatsizemac.com > (But you have buy it to get all the feature set, so sometimes the free trial > only gives you a rough idea of space). > > Hope something there helps. > Kind regards > Daniel > > Sent from my iPhone 12 Pro > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Apple** > > NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and > as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. > Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or > accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this > email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the > author be requested. > >> On 29 Oct 2020, at 9:07 pm, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> I keep receiving a message saying my disc is almost full. When I go to the >> storage section it says only 859mb out of 121 gb is free. 103.77GB is >> allocated to system files. This seems excessive. The library folder has 86gb >> alone. I have deleted a couple of large backup files but not sure what else >> to do. >> I'm keeping this running Mojave because I'm running Family Tree Builder 32 >> bit (until the 64 bit one comes out) and Dreamweaver CS6 as for the amount >> of use I now get out of it it's not worth asubscription. >> >> MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) >> MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 >> 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 >> >> Regards, >> Rosemary Spark >> PO Box 781 >> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >> Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 >> Mobile: 0414268043 >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
