How To Search For Large Files On A Mac Yosemite

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  1. Transfer Large Files
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  3. Sending Large Files

May 26, 2020  Choose Apple menu About This Mac, then click Storage. Each segment of the bar is an estimate of the storage space used by a category of files. Move your pointer over each segment for more detail. Click the Manage button to open the Storage Management window, pictured below. Grep -l text to find files to look in For example, grep -l 123abc.html will list the name of any file in the current directory that ends in.html and contains the string 123abc. (That's a lower-case-L following the GREP) Quite powerful, and fairly fast. Now, if you have some spare time, and want to see what it can really do, try this: su.

Hello, I'm having a problem with hard drive space that I cant solve.

About Mac > Storage says I have 17.49 GB of movie files. I don't know what they are and would like to see if I can delete or relocate these supposed files to clear up space. I've tried everything, including searching for types of files, thoroughly searching my hard-drive etc. I've browsed many old topics and none of the suggestions have worked. Does any one know how to solve this problem?


I'm using Macbook ProRetina OS X El Capitan 10.11.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

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System Information User Guide

Transfer Large Files

macOS can help make more room on your Mac by optimizing its storage. When space is needed, it keeps files, photos and videos, Apple TV movies and shows, and email attachments in iCloud and makes them available on demand. Files don’t take up space on your Mac, and you can download the original files when you need them. Recent files and optimized versions of your photos are always on your Mac.

  1. Choose Apple menu > About This Mac, click Storage, then click Manage.

    macOS calculates how much space is being used by different categories.

    Note: Wait until all categories are finished being calculated to ensure you’re seeing the accurate amount of space. Values are refined as each category is calculated.

  2. View the recommendations and decide how to optimize storage on your Mac.

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    Store in iCloud

    Helps you store files from your Desktop and Documents folders in iCloud Drive, store photos and videos in iCloud Photo Library, store messages and attachments in iCloud, and optimize storage by keeping only recently opened files on your Mac when space is needed.

    See Use iCloud Drive to store documents on your Mac, iOS, and iPadOS devices, Use iCloud Photos to store photos in iCloud, and Use Messages in iCloud.

    You can modify these settings later in iCloud preferences, Photos preferences, and Messages preferences.

    Optimize Storage

    Save space by automatically removing Apple TV movies and shows that you already watched and by keeping only recent email attachments on this Mac when storage space is needed.

    See Change Files preferences in the Apple TV app and Mail Account Information preferences.

    Empty Trash Automatically

    Automatically erase items that have been in the Trash for more than 30 days. You can modify this setting later in the Finder. See Delete files and folders.

    Reduce Clutter

    Quickly find files, apps, books, movies, and other items that are taking up space, then manually delete items you no longer need. See Find and delete files.

How To Search For Large Files On A Mac Yosemite National Park

When space is needed on your Mac, macOS also clears caches and logs that are safe to delete, including temporary database files, interrupted downloads, staged macOS and app updates, Safari website data, and more.

Note: If your disk is partitioned, recommendations apply to only the partition that contains your home directory.

Sending Large Files

To see an overview of used and free disk space, choose Apple menu > About This Mac, then click Storage. See available storage space.