Q: HELP 175 gb of other on hard drive

Hi I seem to have 175 gb unaccounted for i cant find anything that could take up that much space i am running an intel mac on lion i keep all my photos and itunes on seperate drives so the mac does the grunt work the only thing on the mac is video for imovie does anyone have any idea what this 175 gb OTHER is and how do i get rid of it.going by my sums i should have 370 odd gb free

Many thanks in advance

Craig

Posted on Jun 17, 2012 5:25 AM

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by RRFS,

RRFS Jun 17, 2012 6:17 AM in response to craiglonie
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Jun 17, 2012 6:17 AM in response to craiglonie

Here are some links to get you started:

SMART HD UTILITY
http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php
Kernel Panics

Where did my Disk Space go?

http://macmost.com/what-to-do-when-your-hard-drive-is-full.html

This is a great maintenance utility:

OnyX for Mac
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx
http://helpdesk.hsc.unt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Mac-OS-X-10.6-run-OnyX.pd f
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craiglonie Jun 17, 2012 8:59 AM in response to RRFS
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Jun 17, 2012 8:59 AM in response to RRFS

Thanks very much

Craig
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craiglonie Jun 17, 2012 12:00 PM in response to craiglonie
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Jun 17, 2012 12:00 PM in response to craiglonie

Hi Had a look at everything recoverd about 25 gb which is good but i still have around 150gb missing or in yellow other see picture above

I've looked everywhere do you have any more ideas?
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by baltwo,

baltwo Jun 17, 2012 12:05 PM in response to craiglonie
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Jun 17, 2012 12:05 PM in response to craiglonie

If you have Time Machine enabled, more than likely, local snapshots are what's taking up the space.
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craiglonie Jun 17, 2012 12:08 PM in response to baltwo
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Jun 17, 2012 12:08 PM in response to baltwo

Hi Time machine is enabled but on another drive i have a 1 tb for backups are the snapshots in the imac drive ?
and if so how do i delete?

cheers
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baltwo Jun 17, 2012 1:13 PM in response to craiglonie
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Jun 17, 2012 1:13 PM in response to craiglonie

AFAIK, there should be an option in the TM prefPane that turns that off. I don't use TM, preferring bootable CCC clones. Also, see Pondini's TM FAQs, which might cover it.
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by Pondini,

Pondini Jun 17, 2012 4:14 PM in response to craiglonie
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Jun 17, 2012 4:14 PM in response to craiglonie

See The Storage Display for details on Backups and Other.

Backups on your internal HD are Local Snapshots (separate from "Other"); don't worry about them, since they're deleted after a week or if your drive gets over 80% full. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #30 for the gory details.

Backups on an external are your normal Time Machine backups; Time Machine will manage them automatically, too.
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