Need help diagnosing what "other" is on my storage hard drive and delete it to free up space and make my imac (running lion) faster.
Please help...I am an amatuer and easy step by steps would be great
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Trail and Mountain wrote:
Need help diagnosing what "other" is on my storage hard drive and delete it to free up space
Read Here > The Storage Display
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It's displayed through About This Mac.
It's not the only place it can occur, but I suspect you've nailed it.
Its in the about my mac onder storage
Im trying to free up about 258gb of storage
I wouldn't worry about what it says in other, it isn't necessarily accurate and if it is, it's only stuff that doesn't fall into predefined categories.
If you need to delete data, I'd start by looking in your home folder and seeing what you don't need.
A better way might be to get an external drive and move it rather than delete it.
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion's Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.
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How do I find out what "Other" is on my hard drive and delete it?
