Help - iMac Storage/New user account question

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Help - iMac Storage/New user account question

Ok - so I've assumed that my user account was corrupt as Ive been having problems with Safari crashing/freezing the whole of my Mac, but thats another storey.

So i decided to create a new user account to delete the old one. I copied the following folders from my original user account into the shared folder first of all:

Pictures

Music

Movies

Documents

I've now deleted the old account and copied these folders from Shared into my new user account - actually Ive just left Music, Pictures & Movies in shared and am going to point the relevant apps such as iTunes to the shared folder.

The problem I have, is that I've lost over 100gb of storage somewhere on the Mac and I can't see where!

As far as I can see, I've deleted everything so that there is only one copy now and have emptied the Trash folder.

Anybody got any suggestions - perhaps a hidden folder somewhere?

Thanks

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Posted on Apr 19, 2014 7:01 AM

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andyBall_uk

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Apr 19, 2014 8:50 AM in response to Steviewo

GrandPerspective or Omnidisksweeper may help.

You did delete the old Home folder from /Users ?.

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Steviewo Author

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Apr 20, 2014 12:03 PM in response to andyBall_uk

Hi andy - thanks for your reply.

Sorry for my delay in responding - had family staying with us all weekend and not had a chance to get on my computer.

I'm pretty sure that I have deleted the old Home folder from my old user account, as I just deleted the whole account through preferences. I can't seem to see it anywhere anyway.

I've just used Omnidisksweeper - one thing I have noticed is that I have my iMovie library file which is 98 gig and also an 'iMovie Events' folder at 94 gig. Both appear to contain the same files - at least they both appear to have the same .mov files.

I might try and get rid of the Events folder - not sure if I need that or not?

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