Storage Issues

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Storage Issues

Can anyone explain why 10 G of music in iTunes translates into 69 G on my macbook, according to About this Mac? Or why I have 18 G of movies stored on my macbook when I don't have a single video anywhere? I restored my macbook yesterday using OSX; I now have 9G of space left on my harddrive . . . I have nothing on here other than 10 apps, 2000 songs, and my applications. No documents, no videos, no nothing. I'd like to have this extra space back. Can someone tell me how to fix this problem?

macbook, Mac OS X (10.6), Year Old

Posted on Nov 6, 2011 7:06 PM

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rccharles

Level 6

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Nov 6, 2011 9:01 PM in response to Lyncslite

(1)

Run

OmniDiskSweeper

"The simple, fast way to save disk space"

OmniDiskSweeper is now free!

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/download/

This will give you a list of files and folders sorted by size. Go after things you know that are big.

(2) Do you have other users defined on your system. They could be taking up space. This space will not show up in OmniDiskSweeper. ONly space that you can access will show up in OmniDiskSweeper

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