Q: Mac storage is full due to movies I can't find!

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scaarlet121

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Q: Mac storage is full due to movies I can't find!

Hi All,

After searching and searching my mac, I can not find where the 250 odd GB of movies are being stored. My Hard Drive is full. I have an external HD and thought I had moved all movies onto there and I can't find where they could be.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I have done all the usual stuff, including right clicking the iMovie library and all of them point to the external hard drive.

Thanks

Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Mar 7, 2016 3:45 AM

I have this question too

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Klaus1

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Hard drive space and ‘Other’:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202867

Also, try to rebuild the Spotlight index: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716

Posted on Mar 7, 2016 5:50 AM

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scaarlet121 Mar 7, 2016 5:25 AM in response to Klaus1
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Mar 7, 2016 5:25 AM in response to Klaus1

Thank you so much for replying. This is a screen shot of my storage capacity and there is no other. The pink Photos, I know is in iPhoto but the yellow movies I can not find where they are (and they are not part of iPhoto because when I check how big iPhoto library is, it is about 270gb) I also can not see my hard drive space in finder. Only the second picture below. Is there another way to see what is in it?
Oh and I am really sorry but I have just seen that it says I am using an older version, but I have 10.10.2
Thank you
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scaarlet121 Mar 7, 2016 5:50 AM in response to scaarlet121
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Mar 7, 2016 5:50 AM in response to scaarlet121

Found it! The HD was hidden in preferences, I was able to see which file was big and it was my iPhone backups that was taking all the space. All sorted, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
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dialabrain Mar 8, 2016 2:54 AM in response to scaarlet121
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Mar 8, 2016 2:54 AM in response to scaarlet121

Have you restarted your Mac since your deleted the movies?
oops, I see you found the answer.
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Klaus1

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Mar 7, 2016 5:50 AM in response to scaarlet121

Hard drive space and ‘Other’:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202867

Also, try to rebuild the Spotlight index: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716

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