PatrickJ74

Q: Hard Drive Full (but not full)

Hi All,

 

I'm not sure I have sufficient technical knowledge to follow other, similar threads on this topic.  I'd benefit from a bit of gentler handling, if that's okay!

 

I have a relatively new MBP with a 500GB hard drive (flash storage).  I am good with my back-ups and use Time Machine in conjunction with an external HD and have backed up old video and image files to a 2TB external hard drive.

 

What is happening continually is that my Hard Drive gets almost completely used up very quickly.  I have used OmniDiskSweeper to get a view on the size of files - the largest folder (as you might expect) is the Users folder at just over 100GB.  Nothing is else is all that big - so maybe a total usage of 130GB in all.

 

I think the problem comes from the idea of 'hidden backups'.  I recently imported some raw video into iMovie, which I then saved out as a .MOV file and moved off to an external HD, deleting the local copy.  If I've read other threads correctly, the MBP holds some of these large files as a snapshot in time of the drive.

 

However, how can I get rid of these and get back to a relatively clean HD without doing a complete reinstall?

 

Suggestions are warmly welcomed.

 

Patrick

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on Apr 29, 2015 2:56 PM

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