Vanishing Hard Drive Space

[PomPui]

My MacBookPro is getting long in the tooth and I noticed it's getting low on disk space.

I am sure I have collected years and years of junk.

What is the best way of finding out what directories have all the data in them so I can tidy up?

Thanks

PomPui

[daveAustin]

Reformat.

[mikebike]

Check the biggest culprit: the DOWNLOADS FOLDER. If you are not deleting stuff regularly from your downloads folder you can fill up your HD very quickly.

[mikebike]

Also remove any superfluous or unused programs from apps folder.

[PomPui]

Yeah will go through the apps folder now totally forgot about that

Must be loads of junk in there after 5 years

[PomPui]

Okay it's my iTunes library

[mikebike]

Okay it's my iTunes library

Chuck stuff you don't listen to and use the "Show Duplicate Items" under the "View" menu.

[RichCor]

You might also do a file search based on 'size', say > 1MB. You'll get a lot of returns, but it will show you what directories the files live in.