Movies taking my hard drive space

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Movies taking my hard drive space

I was looking through my apple storage and it showed that I was taking up 26GB for 'Movies'. I've checked my movies folder, I've used spotlight to search for common movie file extensions, and I've downloaded OmniDiskSweeper to try and find what the issue was - BUT I HAVEN'T.

Where else could this 26GB of movies be? Is it possible that the 26GB of so called movies is actually another file type?

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MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Oct 16, 2013 11:29 PM

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PlotinusVeritas

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Oct 17, 2013 2:19 AM in response to nchahal

See here for answer about “OTHER” taking up space:

http://pondini.org/TM/30.html

and here:

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

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Linc Davis

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Oct 17, 2013 12:34 PM in response to nchahal

Rebuild the Spotlight index. If you try to search now from the magnifying-glass icon in the top right corner of the display, a pulsing dot will appear in the icon. When the dot disappears, the indexing is complete.

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nchahal Author

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Oct 22, 2013 11:01 PM in response to nchahal

Okay I managed to solve it - Unintentionally though!

I installed the new OS X Mavericks, and looked through my storage and all of the so called 26GB of 'Movies' has now gone - giving me close to 30GB more space!

Thanks for the help though.

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