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osxisfun · Jun 1, 2005, 02:36 PM

(In 10.4 I have filevault turned on)

A while back i moved all my files to my powerbook. (80 gig drive.)

I got to the point where i had about 40 gigs free and i thought all my files were transferred.

But one thing i did do was copy a 11 gig file to the / of my drive which i deleted after a few days.

Well, now its been a couple of weeks and I am down to 31 gigs.

The thing is I am unsure if i really copied 10 more gigs of data or if there is an "orphan" ammount of files that need deleting.

Since some of the files where copied to my / i am wondering if i need to log in as root to delete it's trash?

Is there a tool i can use to find all the files on my drive by size (including root level files) so i can look down the list to ensure that i really have deleted all the files and the disk space I have is a true number.

thanks

PS:
I tried this link but i did not have a previous system folder:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...35773#comments

and I also restarted to reclaim my filevault space.

jszrules · Jun 1, 2005, 02:42 PM

Is this the type of thing you're looking for: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7402

himself · Jun 1, 2005, 02:43 PM

Sounds like you need OmniDiskSweeper.

osxisfun · Jun 1, 2005, 02:45 PM

thank you! i will download it now.

himself · Jun 1, 2005, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by jszrules

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Damn! beat me to it. By a single minute no less...

P.S. I'm running OmniDiskSweeper as we speak (or type, read, whatever).

osxisfun · Jun 1, 2005, 02:49 PM

ah ha! i emptied the trash of my main user and then i searched with disksweeper and the:

.Trash has 3.9 gigs in it. My my trash in empty so i guess this is the root user.

thanks for the tip. I may log in as root and try out some stuff later!

PS: is it safe to from Omnisweeper "destroy" the .Trash folder?

osxisfun · Jun 1, 2005, 03:02 PM

this is one nice tool. thanks again for the tip. my HD is getting bigger as we speak.

dice · Jun 1, 2005, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by osxisfun

this is one nice tool. thanks again for the tip. my HD is getting bigger as we speak.

pfffff use WhatSize instead. Does the same as OmniDiskSweeper but its FREE. Used it earlier without a problem...

osxisfun · Jun 1, 2005, 04:33 PM

thks. will checkout too.