[Hidden-tech] Mac Tech question

[Eric Wilson]

additionally, sequoiaView on the PC (grandperspective on the mac) will 
show you in "blocks" what is taking up how much space on your drive.  
It's pretty cool and gives you clear picture of your drive space.

Eric


Gary King wrote:
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> The unix findtool can also do this. On OS X use should be able to use 
> spotlight for better response time.
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> On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu> 
> wrote:
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>> Jeff Rutherford wrote:
>>> Can someone answer this question for me. My hard drive is quickly 
>>> filling up, and I need to delete files, documents, etc. to free up 
>>> space.
>>>
>>> How can I search across my entire hard drive (not just specific 
>>> folders) and sort files by the file size? So I can easily find the 
>>> largest files on my machine wherever they may be.
>>
>> how are you with unix tools?
>>
>> open a window in the terminal application. then enter:
>>
>> du -k /  2>/dev/null  |  grep  '^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'  |  sort -n  
>> |  less
>>
>> that ought to do it, though you might have to tweak it a bit to suit 
>> your fancy. It also may take a little while to respond, since it 
>> can't do the sort until it has all the results. But, it will result 
>> in a list of all the files on your system that are larger than a 
>> megabyte sorted by size. The largest ones will be at the end, where 
>> you can see them without scrolling up.
>>
>> If you want to tweak that, you can make the first 0-9 into 5-9 and 
>> only get things that are 5M or larger. Or you can add another [0-9] 
>> and get only things that are 10M or larger.
>>
>> Use that for reference as you browse through a finder window and 
>> decide what to toss.
>>
>> Have fun.
>>
>>
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