[shecky]

this is really weird.

I have a 60GB HD in my TiBook running Panther and i am looking around it today trying to free up some space... so as i look at my user/documents folder and do a 'get info' it tells me that its taking up 25.62 GB of space. when i look at the individual folders in the user/documents folder one by one and add up the total space, it only comes to 16.88 GB.

uhmmmmmmmmm? what am i missing here? are there hidden folders/files in there somewhere? and if so can there really be 9GB worth? can i see them somehow?

<----confused

[Fredo]

Try Onyx. http://www.titanium.free.fr./english.html Empty caches and get some of that space back. It�s free.

[Hi I'm Ben]

I'd use Omni Disk Sweeper

Or also check for files over 200 megs with find. I remember one time my Mac got all messed up in 10.2 and wrote a 9 GB error log.

[Boondoggle]

Have you emptied the trash lately?

wait nevermind... that wouldn't make your home folder large...

[Phil Sherry]

try a Finder search: Find files in ~/ > xxMb + invisible

i'm not at a Mac right now, otherwise i'd offer a command line version of that

[mudzilla]

three words.

hidden. pr0n. stash.

[Phil Sherry]

Originally posted by mudzilla:
three words.

hidden. pr0n. stash.

heh, that too

[shecky]

nope... not hidden at all. the pr0n is in a folder clearly labeled "technical manuals"


Onyx seemed to cleat up the space beautifully, but what i did notice was that it only made the inconsistency from the documents folder to the individual folders clear up; when i goto the hard drive and look its the same overall amount of open space.

now i am more clueless.

[Chuckit]

Originally posted by shecky:
Onyx seemed to cleat up the space beautifully, but what i did notice was that it only made the inconsistency from the documents folder to the individual folders clear up; when i goto the hard drive and look its the same overall amount of open space.

Did you get info on the hard drive or just look at the free space at the bottom of the window? Because the latter can sometimes get a little bit behind.

[shecky]

looked at the info on the HD itself, also the same numbers appear in System Profiler.

[Anubis IV]

Actually, wouldn't emptying the trash help since the .trash folder is kept in the Home directory?

Anyway, download TinkerTool from VersionTracker or MacUpdate and enable the ability to see invisible files. Once you can see the invisible files, look around and see what's taking up all the space. It's probably the easiest way to see if there is actually anything there taking up space.

[m a d r a]

Originally posted by Phil Sherry:
... blar de blar ...

oh. it's 'phil sherry' now is it? what happened to lovable cuddly 'philzilla' ? gone all formal on us now you're 'in print' have you?

[mudzilla]

ideas above his station now, madra. don't worry, it's upto us to drag him back to our level.

mud

[Angus_D]

Add my vote for OmniDiskSweeper.