Robbo
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I posted a few months ago about how my MBA keeps literally eating up the space on my hard-drive, and queried whether it couyld be failed udpates or something as I had generally only 1GB of space free at any one time (max) whereas most system updates require 1GB+ to perform. Having run the Mavericks update last night my system manager space bar has finally started working again so I can visualise the issue... how is "Other" taking up more space than ANYTHING else on my harddrive?!?!?! And how the fuck can I clear it so I can reclaim my space?? 
PS not interested in comments about managing the rest of the contents of my harddrive
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willay
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Other, i.e. System files, 36gb seems reasonable in this day and age of computing. You should consider:
* Buying a bigger SSD drive for your laptop
* Question having 33GB of photos, are they all high def raw photos from your camera? Perhaps you should consider resizing them to a more reasonable size.
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Balling
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My "other" is nearly 90 GB. I certainly don't see anything alarming with your numbers.
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Balling
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Btw, this is a great little tool to get a more detailed overview:
http://www.derlien.com/
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A1EX
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Put your movies and photos on a portable HD, possibly even music depending how much you listen to all of it. As said your other files size is pretty normal
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Nismo
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I think its that huge pile of shit in the background taking up all the space tbh.
other than that go for a larger drive or transfer all music/movies and photos to a USB drive.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by A1EX
.....portable HD...
THIS!
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Robbo
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THAT IS NOT FUCKING NORMAL WHAT THE FUCK IS IT!
example, a few months ago i had 3GB spare space. A few days later, having imported a few photos and apps perhaps it was down to 300MB.
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Balling
Btw, this is a great little tool to get a more detailed overview:
http://www.derlien.com/
cheers, will run it.
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evilrob
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"Clean My Mac" will sort out your shit with one click, but costs £34.99:
http://macpaw.com/cleanmymac
Alternatively, slightly less user friendly but free "Onyx":
http://www.titanium.free.fr/downloadonyx.php
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
THAT IS NOT FUCKING NORMAL WHAT THE FUCK IS IT!
Should have bought a proper laptop with a bigger drive then 
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Robbo
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can someone just tell me what its made up of? ie what system files are using ~30% of the tiny little hard drive and why they keep expanding at a rate every time i free up some space!
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
THAT IS NOT FUCKING NORMAL WHAT THE FUCK IS IT!
Should have bought a proper laptop with a bigger drive then
This.
It's also a complete pita to fix when it gets to 0, had to sort it out for someone before.
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Robbo
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yes it is... but as i said in my first post, im not interested in comments about managing other contents or comments that should ahve got a bugger hard drive, i just want to know what the fuck is taking up 36GB and how i can do some cleaning of it to reduce it as it isnt normal and constantly eats my free space!
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by evilrob
"Clean My Mac" will sort out your shit with one click, but costs £34.99:
http://macpaw.com/cleanmymac
Alternatively, slightly less user friendly but free "Onyx":
http://www.titanium.free.fr/downloadonyx.php
ill happily pay if it works and is decent!!! thats the one that comen sup when searchign for torrents and other such stuff right?
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John
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It is normal. When your computer is running, it does lots of stuff in the background. It creates temporary files that change in size all the time. When you open your Arsenal pictures, it'll create temporary files in the background.
Stop focussing on the 'other' and focus on the things you do know, like half of the drive being taken up by movies and photos.
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Robbo
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its not normal to eat 2.5GB in a week as it did recently, or 1GB in 10 mins as it did yesterday!!!
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
can someone just tell me what its made up of?
Pixie dust and Unicorn spunk 
It all serious though, it's likely to be a mixture of cached files (from a multitude of system and non-system apps) and logs. Either way, it's perfectly normal and you best solution is to move your 81GB (63% of your storage) of media off to another drive or at least transfer the less used files.
Alternatively upgrade the internal drive - OWC might be your best bet for an upgrade drive.
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evilrob
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
quote:
Originally posted by evilrob
"Clean My Mac" will sort out your shit with one click, but costs £34.99:
http://macpaw.com/cleanmymac
Alternatively, slightly less user friendly but free "Onyx":
http://www.titanium.free.fr/downloadonyx.php
ill happily pay if it works and is decent!!! thats the one that comen sup when searchign for torrents and other such stuff right?
No, the dodgy one that pops up when you're doing naughty things on teh internets is MacKeeper, which you should avoid.
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Dom
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Originally posted by Robbo
its not normal to eat....
You're determined to ignore our advice, therefore i suggest you take it Apple and tell them that "it's not normal"
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willay
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Asks for computer advice, then gets it and says no.
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Robbo
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becuase it is NOT normal to eat 2.5GB in a week!!!
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
its not normal to eat....
You're determined to ignore our advice, therefore i suggest you take it Apple and tell them that "it's not normal"
i cant do that because i have no idea why the other grows so much and so suddenly!
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willay
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
.... because i have no idea ....
Take it to Apple, the MBA is clearly faulty in your eyes as "it isn't normal"
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