2/10/2013

[macsupport] Digest Number 9372

9 New Messages

Digest #9372
1a
Running Out of Room by "Doris" untoldexpressions
1b
Re: Running Out of Room by "Jim Saklad" jimdoc01
1c
Re: Running Out of Room by "Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger
1d
Re: Running Out of Room by "Ken" avliska
1e
Re: Running Out of Room by "OBrien" conorboru
2a
External hard drive by "Carol" floridabouvs
2b
Re: External hard drive by "Vandrei Jaques" vandrei_jaques
2c
Re: External hard drive by "Jim Saklad" jimdoc01

Messages

Sat Feb 9, 2013 7:43 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Doris" untoldexpressions

Hi,

I ad been keepong track of what's in my MacBookPro, (10.9.2, 2.53 GHz Intel
Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3) but I let it go for awhile and now find I
have less than 55 GB left out of the 300.

Way back when on my One-to-One they showed me where all the stuff is taking
up the memory but haven't a clue now how to find this. I don't remember
adding anything lately except for the operating system upgrade.

How can I find this out so I can do some drastic housecleaning on the
computer?

Thanks,

Doris

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Sat Feb 9, 2013 7:59 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Jim Saklad" jimdoc01

> I ad been keepong track of what's in my MacBookPro, (10.9.2, 2.53 GHz Intel
> Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3) but I let it go for awhile and now find I
> have less than 55 GB left out of the 300.
>
> Way back when on my One-to-One they showed me where all the stuff is taking
> up the memory but haven't a clue now how to find this. I don't remember
> adding anything lately except for the operating system upgrade.
>
> How can I find this out so I can do some drastic housecleaning on the
> computer?

1. I presume the OS is 10.8.2

2. Get OmniDiskSweeper (free). It will show you were everything is, and how much space it is occupying.
https://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/>

3. If you do Time Machine backups from a laptop, the default settings include doing "Mobile Backups" or "Mobile Snapshots" when you are not connected to the TM drive. This can be turned off.

4. The computer will go into either "Sleep" or "Hibernate" mode after a period of inactivity. In Sleep mode the computer saves its state to RAM only. In Hibernate mode, it saves it's state to the hard drive. Thus, Hibernate mode (the default) results in the creation of a single file (normally invisible) the size of your entire RAM (4 GB in your case). I have reset mine so that it only goes to "Sleep" and does not create this file, and I have deleted the 6 GB file (in my case) from my machine.

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Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@icloud.com

Sat Feb 9, 2013 9:32 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger


On Feb 9, 2013, at 7:43 PM, Doris wrote:

> How can I find this out so I can do some drastic housecleaning on the
> computer?

One of these free utilities will do it.

DiskInventory X (free)
http://www.derlien.com/

GrandPerspective (free)
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

OmniDiskSweeper (free)
http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/

Of course, you can open any folder, switch to list view (Command-2), and then click on the Size header to arrange everything in the list by size. If you click on the little triangle that appears next to the Size header it will toggle whether things are ordered from largest to smallest or vice versa.

___________________________________________
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
___________________________________________

Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:26 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Ken" avliska


This might be obvious to some, but wasn't to me: Have you emptied your trash?
I download several podcasts every day, and there's always 10 to 15 gigs of trash every week that builds up and I have to remember to empty it or I run into the same problem you are experiencing. Ken Silva

>
> I ad been keepong track of what's in my MacBookPro, (10.9.2, 2.53 GHz Intel
> Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3) but I let it go for awhile and now find I
> have less than 55 GB left out of the 300.
>
>
> How can I find this out so I can do some drastic housecleaning on the
> computer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doris

Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:03 am (PST) . Posted by:

"OBrien" conorboru

On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 19:43:33 -0800, Doris wrote:
> Way back when on my One-to-One they showed me where all the stuff is taking
> up the memory but haven't a clue now how to find this…..

The way you worded the above, it sounds like you might be confusing memory (RAM) with hard drive space. (Or, maybe you just used the wrong word inadvertently.) I point this out only because your problem is, evidently, one of disc space…the one-on-one person might have been referring to something having to do with RAM.


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Sun Feb 10, 2013 8:31 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Carol" floridabouvs

I went shopping for an external hard drive to back up my new iMac 27". Those at the Apple store start at about $200. My Western Digital external drive for my PC was only about $80 and I think is 500G (maybe 1T). Can I switch it to the iMac? Or can I buy a new Western Digital for the iMac rather than an Apple product? If I do, might it not be good enough?
Thanks,
Carol

Sun Feb 10, 2013 8:48 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Vandrei Jaques" vandrei_jaques

You can format (lose all your data actually in the drive) your external
drive for a HFS+ (MAC standard file system) and use normally. Just use
Spotlight [COMMAND] + [SPACEBAR] and type DiskUtilty. Now format you
external drive for a MAC =P

> Carol floridabouvs@gmail.com>
> 10 de fevereiro de 2013 14:30
>
> I went shopping for an external hard drive to back up my new iMac 27".
> Those at the Apple store start at about $200. My Western Digital
> external drive for my PC was only about $80 and I think is 500G (maybe
> 1T). Can I switch it to the iMac? Or can I buy a new Western Digital
> for the iMac rather than an Apple product? If I do, might it not be
> good enough?
> Thanks,
> Carol
>
>

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Sun Feb 10, 2013 1:08 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Jim Saklad" jimdoc01

> I went shopping for an external hard drive to back up my new iMac 27". Those at the Apple store start at about $200. My Western Digital external drive for my PC was only about $80 and I think is 500G (maybe 1T). Can I switch it to the iMac?

I presume your "new iMac 27"" has the Thunderbolt and USB-3 connectors. Does your WD drive do USB-3? Generally speaking for an external backup drive you want as fast a connection as possible, because you're going to be writing many gigabytes.

Yes, you can switch the WD drive over, but if it is going to be a dedicated iMac drive, you will want to re-partition and re-format it.

> Or can I buy a new Western Digital for the iMac rather than an Apple product?

At this point in time, I would not buy WD.

I would go here:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB>
and buy whatever size you require. $139 for a 500GB drive with Firewire 800, eSATA, and USB-3 connectors, up to $365 for a 4TB drive.

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Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@icloud.com

Sun Feb 10, 2013 12:25 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Dave C" davec2468

When I open a New Window in Firefox, it opens my home page.

When I open a New Tab, it shows me the "favorites" page (I think that's what it's called): 9 web page previews.

I've played with the Preferences settings and can't seem to get the Home Page to show when opening a New Tab.

Can I do this? How?

Thanks,
Dave

Firefox 18.0.2
2011 Mini 2.7 GHz dual i7 / 16 GB / 250 GB & 750 GB
OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard

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