Find and Delete Large Files on Mac Hard Drive
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.พ. 2014
- How to find and delete large files / folders on macOS. This is a great way to quickly free up hard drive space on your Mac computer.
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Published by Anson Alexander from AnsonAlex.com.
Thanks for this tutorial, helps me a lot to find huge files that occupied and maxed my HD. Now I can either trash them or move to the external HD I bought as a back up!
Alex,
This was a big help. Clear and direct and simple Well Done!
Alex, very clear and to the point, you made it so easy...Good help. Thanks
Great video. It helped me clear up a ton of stored unused memory.
Cheers Anson. Very helpful.
Great help! thanks Anson!
thank you!!!!!! that was short and sweet and to the point. love your work, you're awesome.
You can also add a second filter below size that indicates when it was last opened and/or modified; to the user having trouble locating the minus (dash) sign, it's cap + on the desktop (I'm on an iPad now; apologies if I am having a senior moment) and on an iOS device it shows up when you hit the bottom left (symbols/numerals key) and to reach the plus sign hit that same key again. Hope this helps!
Thanks!! This was really straightforward!
thanks anson your a life saver
Very enlightening. Thank You very much man. Please bring another tutorial as I am new to the mac. I'm using OS X Yosemite.
that was super helpful, thanks a lot!!
Thank you! Great tutorial.
Thank you for the great advice... 43GB now free!
Great quick tips! Thank you!
You have one like this for yosemite, the same information is not showing up on my mac doing step by step. Also the finder system on mac has always seemed very illusive to me. thanks!
thank you for this tutorial.. it really helped me find all the videos I did not know I had taking up over 500 GB on my hard drive.. great instructions.
Thank you! So helpful!!!!
great tutorial
Love your stuff. Keep them coming
So helpful - thank you!!!
Fantastic - Very well explained 😀✅
Mine only has a subtract option. How do I add the plus?
so helpful! thanks
Thanks so much helps me out so much bro
Well done. Thank you!
thanks dude subbed
Thank you! You saved me there..
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Hey, there something i don't understand i have done everything i could think of but when i go to the apple logo in the top left corner then choose "about this mac" - "storage" there is a large bar of Blue and that are applications, and i now see that o have 1,39 TB of that ( i assume that means TerraByte ). but i also see right on top that there is 219,17 GB free of 319,21 GB.
I don't know what to do is it just a bug or something
mac i got is a iMac from mid 2007
its a old one with OS Z El Capitan
Version: 10.11.6
Could you please help me with this. Thank you
Thank you!
Thank you! you just earned a sub :D
Thank you! So simple. My storage info shows I have 18 gigs of video, but I can't find where those videos are when searching my computer (they are not under movies) so I'm going to try this and see if they pop up!
they are in your imovie events. Open imovie and open each event. Delete from there.
Still works in 2020!!
thx dude
Thank you :) when I click on them i don't have the option to move to the trash and when i tried to do it manually they stayed where they were, I'm on Sonoma 14.4, if you can help, I'd be very grateful, thank you
thanks buddy very helpful :) cheers
thank you SO much!
Wauw, thanks a lot! Really helpful.
I wish to make a video for essential apps for beginners on Mac
You're my new best friend...subscribing now!!
brilliant, i found 40 gig using this method, cheers
Does this help things from not crashing out?
Thanks ever so much
thanks you legend
It shows in my storage that I have 41.14 GB of videos and 58 GB of others however once i search for these files using the above method the big files that show is imovie and iphoto which are only 8 gb in total.
Great simple vid for this technophobe! All sorted - thanks very much Sir! 👊🏻
Thanks
However, it only shows 'kind' not 'size' how do I fix it?
Wow! Thank you so much :-)
HELP! My mac says I am using 201.34GB of space and I can't see how that is possible since I've never downloaded any movies. 176 GB take up "other" any tips as to how I can clean this out would be so greatly appreciated. please help!!
omg yesssssss thank you so much!!! :D
i new this already does anyone know how to find the folders?
If you're using Yosemite and see the "-" sign instead of a "+" as i saw, just click the gear in the top middle of the screen. Should give you the same options as the video suggests. I was able to search for videos by file size and then magically, my "-" turned to a "+".
no help again
Nothing appears in mine after I try to find files xD help pls lol
I tried this but it wasn't giving me the option of deleting cogs but was letting me delete any other app
I don't have the "+" sign, only the "-" sign, what do I do?
any ideas?
I have about 323GB of 'movie files' on my mac that I cannot find. I have tried this method and not a single movie file came up. I store all my movies on an external hard drive so I am very confused why I would have so many movie files on my mac and even more so that I cant find any of them. Do you have a solution for this?
Get Linux or Windows.
+Chels Randall I have the same issue, did you find a resolution? thanks
ME TOO. HOW COME THIS GUY DOESNT ANSWER QUESTIONS?
Pawknee123 I found out the answer; in my case, should delete all images in 'Recently deleted' folder in album. When you deleted images, you will get 'Recently deleted' folder in Album of Photos app. double click 'Recently deleted' folder and you can see all images which you deleted.
oh thank you! im going to go try this now!
Yass thank you!!
u rock
my finder has a "-" symbol instead of a "+" symbol. And, I can't press it. help?
+Arifinity Go to your "Movies" tab or any other tab besides "All My Files" and try it.
+Arifinity
same here. So this tutorial is now useless!
Awesome
Can you help mine is a - sign?
what if I don't need any of those files?
Thanks u saved my life!
Mac OS Sierra More than 10.6. nothing shows when you do file size greater than 500 MB. I am very sure I have files that are greater than 500 MB
this also works using OS X YOSEMITE .. thanks again.
Anthony Rosamilia I KNOW RIGHT
Macs used to be so intuitive and easy to used. Not any more! Give me WINDOWS !
No help because
My thing only shows a minus not a plus.
i dont get the plus symbol -_-
ctrl+f
yo probably mean command+f ; i can search, but i dont get the options
Where is the hard drive? Lmao I’m so new
u sound ice t lol
Mac OS Sierra More than 10.6. nothing shows when you do file size greater than 500 MB. I am very sure I have files that are greater than 500 MB