[Ryan Ross]

Im trying to expand a few .rar items onto my desktop and having some serious issues. When i run stuffit, it shows that it's making progress on the progress bar but after a while it pops up with some errors. Ive switched to using UnRarX and its finally working properly. However, my problem is that when i was using stuffit, it used up a lot of my hard drive space (about 6 gigs) but didnt actually produce any files that I can delete. I moved the .rar files onto my external drive and tried to run it there, but it did the same thing (showing progress, leaving no files and using up space).

When i do the "get info" thing for my desktop it shows over 6 gigs on there, but when i highligh all the items on my desktop and "get info" its only 4 mgs. Any ideas how i can find all the stuff thats taking up all that space on my desktop and my external drive?? Ive tried to find all the new files in spotlight but i cant find anything! Any ideas??

[CharlesS]

WhatSize should be able to help you with that.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13006

[Ryan Ross]

It totally worked! Thank you so much, its been pissing me off all day!

[osxrules]

Yeah, I try to avoid Stuffit as much as I can. It seems to put stuff into the extracted directory in a .$stuffit folder or something. I've had that a few times. I think the bomarchiver in OS X does it too but it puts them in a .bah folder. I too prefer the terminal as it's just more reliable and I think it's faster.

I sometimes use easyfind to locate the bad folders. If they take up a lot of space then I'd use whatsize but mostly the broken archives are hard to find with it.

I only wish that people would stop using Stuffit altogether. When there are so many free unix solutions that offer better compression, why pay to use Stuffit?