My Macbook's hard drive is almost full, how do i find out what is taking most of the memory so i can delete it?

Hope this helps.

1. Empty Trash.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677

2. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.

Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.

Select "Library" from the dropdown.

Library > Mail > V2 > Mailboxes

Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.

Empty Trash. Restart.

3. Repair Disk

Steps 1 through 7

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836

4. For more on this:

http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html

http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html

Best.

Empty the trash!

Open up your application folder & go through all your apps. Trash all the apps you no longer want and/or use.

An easier way to do this is to open the Application folder in list view & press the [b]Command+j[/b] keys.

In the the dialog that appears, click the "This Window Only" button & the "Calculate All Sizes" check box. Wait a bit until your file & folder sizes have all been calculated, then click the "Size" column to sort your apps from the fattest to the most anorexic.

Get rid of all your photo files you don't want and/or need. Same goes for those pics off the websites you downloaded (gifs, jpegs, etc.).

Get rid of all your music files you no longer listen too. Especially, if you already have the actual CDs and/or DVDs or you can later redownload from a website.

Use Spotlight to make sure you got rid of everything. You can even trash directly from Spotlight!

Drag what you don't want and/or need to the trash. Better yet, download this neat little shareware app *demo* called AppZapper. It basically does all the work for you by not only trashing the apps but the apps preference files, caches & all its associated files.

Another software that does the above is AppDelete. Best of all this software is *free*!

Burn what you want and/or need onto CDs or DVDs.

Not everyone has the luxury of purchasing an external HD to store their "stuff, junk, music & photos".

You can check with your ISP to see if they offer *free* storage space. Most if not all do now-a-days. I store all 5000+ of my music & 500+ music videos in my ISP storage bin. There are thousands if not millions of *free* storage facilities on the web also. Use your favorite search engine, to search them out as they come in different storage sizes to fit your needs & wants.

Check for duplicate fonts.

Applications>Font Book

Select “All Fonts”

If you see any “black dots” next to any fonts this mean you have duplicates and/or multiple versions of these fonts.

To clean this up, select a “black dotted” font or the Apple + *click* to select multiple dotted fonts;

Edit>Resolve>Duplicates.

What the above does is turns off the duplicates & multiple version fonts. Not delete them.

More than likely the “extras” were installed by other programs and/or other users.

Clear out font caches

Use FontNuke. It does all the work for you. And, best of all it’s *FREE*.

Printer Drivers

Get rid of all the printer drivers you don’t need & use except the ones for your *current* printer(s)/scanner(s).

HD>Library>Printers Folder

If you accidentally threw something out that you needed for your printer/scanner it can be easily obtained from the manufacturer’s website and/or from the CD that came w/the printer/scanner.

Garage Band

Has about 1GB of loops stored. Get rid of some some them. You surely don’t use, like and/or need them all.

HD>Library>Audio/Apple Loops>Apple>Apple Loops For GarageBand

Or just get rid of the Garage Band app altogether if you don’t use it.

Get rid of extra languages

Strip your computer down to your “native” tongue. You can do this with a *FREE* utility called http://monolingual.sourceforge.netMonolingual. Another app that apparently does all the work for you. I’ve never used it. However, a lot of users here swear by & recommend it highly. However, there is a warning for *native English speakers*. Make sure you keep BOTH English and English (United States).

Other Resources:

Seven ways to free up drive space Where did my Disk Space go?

Slimming your hard drive

Seven ways to free up drive space

OmniDiskSweeper is a free utility that checks HD space.

FreeSpace cost $1 or is a free utility that checks HD space.

SpaceControl is a free utility that checks HD space.

FreeSpace cost $.99 - FreeSpace shows you how much space is available on all local, connected, and network drives with a single click.

Rule of thumb: You should never let your hard drive get to where you have only 10-15% of space left.

P.S. It's not your memory, it's the hard drive that needs move space.

Oh same here. I just bought new Mac Pro with 128 GB storage. Then installed xCode-7 and Android Studio. Then download Telegram source code both for iPhone and for Android. Running, compiling etc. Now remaining capacity just 1.5 - 4.5 GB and got warning from OS that is too low 😟 Sad sad... never happened like this using Windows.

EdoMac wrote:

Oh same here. I just bought new Mac Pro with 128 GB storage. ...

The new Mac Pro ships with a minimum of 256 GB storage. http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/

How much storage did you have in your Windows machine?

I have installed Disk Inventory X, so now I know the problems. My new Android Studio and all of its accesories take about 60 GB of my Apple Harddisk.

So, nothing wrong with my Mac lol. My Windows laptop has 500 GB Sata. Thx for reply. Regards.