I have recently trashed 200gb of files and restarted, but still only have 47 gb available space on hard drive

Thanks CMCSK

I am using omnisweeper and it gives me a nice overview but doesnt solve my problem.

I did 2 sweeps, one on my hard drive and It is using 451 GB where as 405 of them are in users? further right is says 404gb bands under sparsebundle?

And one on my home folder that is using 299gb?'

Any additional suggestions are warmly welcome.

J.

Im sorry, what I left out is that I had 47 Gb available, and then trashed 200Gb worth of misq files, but still only have 47 Gb available.

thanks Allan.

No, really not sure what is was used for. And i have no cule if the files I trashed were sparsebundled. They were mainly video and picture files

Now looking at the drive list it notes: Drive: 46.3mb free, 453.2gb used, 499.8gb total

My homefolder: 46.2gb free, 953gb used, 999.5gb total

Hi.

Yes I have filevault enabled. Tried turnin it off, but it requires 284 gb of free space....?

Any suggestions?

Thank you. It is helpful, but I was hoping I could avoid going through all that. Thats pretty extensive.

Thanks for the suggestion baltwo, but i havent been running timemachine.

If I am to follow this extensive process of backing up my home folder and creating a new user before deleting my current user account etc. I am a little uncertain what info i am supposed to relate to.

In Omnidisk is list my user folder at 299.4GB, and when I use "command i" on my selected user/homeholder, it says 955GB used..

I dont want to start backing up 300GB of stuff, putting a hault to my work, and then finding out I really need 1T to back up.

Any suggestions are welcomed.

Thanks!

I am backing up my 'homefolder' but what about my 'hardrive' under 'Devices' that contains my 'homefolder'? It also contains my applications folder, Library folder, system folder, user guide and users folder which again contains my home folder and shared items folder?

The applications folder in my home folder is empty.

Any advise?