Storage almost full: 204.81 GB of Movies that don't exist?

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Storage almost full: 204.81 GB of Movies that don't exist?

Hi, so I have a MacBook Pro and it keeps notifying me that my storage is almost full. However I have one folder that contains 31 images and 2 mp3 files and then the programs i have installed: Google Chrome, VLC Player, Spotify, Android File Transfer and Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel & Outlook. When i click on the storage tab in "About This Mac" it tells me that i have 204.81 GB of MOVIES and only 3 GB free in total.

It is showing up as:

MOVIES: 204.81 GB

OTHER: 24.39 GB

APPS: 9.39 GB

AUDIO: 7.35 GB

PHOTOS: 813.5 MB

BACKUPS: 19.7 MB

I have read to go through iMovie, iPhoto etc and delete all files, and i have and all that did was clear up tiny bit of room, I cannot figure out why it says i have 204.81 GB of Movies. Do other things that I have installed classify as movies, how do i get rid of this?

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), hard drive, usb, not showing up.

Posted on May 11, 2016 9:48 PM

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theratter

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May 11, 2016 10:08 PM in response to jessmmill

How to Free Up Space on The Hard Drive

You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
See Where did my Disk Space go?.
Be sure to Empty the Trash to recover the space.
Replace the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Use OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

The storage display in About This Mac is unreliable unless the disk has been recently indexed: Spotlight- How to re-index folders or volumes - Apple Support. Use the disk status of Get Info for a reliable indication. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. The topmost panel has the disk status info: Capacity, User, and Available.

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