Freeing hard drive space on internal drives
My computer has an internal 100gb drive. To protect myself, I have a pair of 250gb external drives that mirror off eachother where I store photos, movies and music. Naturally, I rely on my internal drive a lot – something that has been more challenging lately as I have been regularly working with less than 5gb of free space. I like to keep photos from the last two or three months saved on my laptop in case I ever have to quickly access them while traveling but the space issue has made this difficult.
Enter Disk Inventory X (free!) ! This program, which seemed kind of frivolous to me at first, graphically illustrates the size of each file on your computer. I hadn’t used this program in a while so it came as a surprise to me when it found me an Adobe Bridge file called filesystem_blobs.MYD that was over 5gb in size. sleepimage is another file that was about 2gb in size. Both of these are self-generating and relatively non crucial. I deleted them and the world is now a more harmonious place!
In my case, I also noticed various .msf files somehow created by Thunderbird (which I don’t use) were taking up room so I got rid of those too!
Remember the days when a 500mb hard drive with 4mb of RAM was almost unbelievable?
To end on a sidenote, if you have a Mac and are tired of embarrassing yourself with the startup chime after you’ve arrived late to class or to a meeting, check out Psst! (free again!), a program that controls the volume of this startup sound. Cool.
Disk Inventory X (free!)
Psst! (free again!)
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