Mac Storage: 'Apps'

[Hoddo]

My machine is telling me I have 58gb worth of 'apps' on my system.

When I go to the applications folder there are a good few apps there but when I totalled there are only about 20gb worth of applications in there. What is taking up my space? Is there a tool I can use which clearly breakdown exactly what is eating my storage?

Also - how do I remove Garage Band? Don't need it and it is using 1.4gb.

[megaphone]

Have a look at ccleaner and disk inventory, may be of help. I have 22.9GB of apps on my iMac, I have all the Mac suite and Office for Mac, Final Cut Express, plus loads more. Interestingly I have 222GB of 'other' what ever that is! Emails and attachments I expect.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/41220/ccleaner

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14393/disk-invent...

[jmorgan]

My iPad has taken a chunk for backup, do you have a pad or mobile backed up?

[Hoddo]

The only software I have on the machine outside of the standard applications are Spotify, Sonos, and Wanderlist. There are also no iPhone or iPad backups on the laptop.

Outside of photos there is nothing on this machine.

Annoying.

[Hoddo]

megaphone said:

Have a look at ccleaner and disk inventory, may be of help. I have 22.9GB of apps on my iMac, I have all the Mac suite and Office for Mac, Final Cut Express, plus loads more. Interestingly I have 222GB of 'other' what ever that is! Emails and attachments I expect.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/41220/ccleaner

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14393/disk-invent...

The Disk Inventory tool is excellent. Thank you. Quickly identified about 7gb of files. Thank you.

[NDA]

What were the files out of interest?

My mail apps use the most space on my Air.... Yahoo particularly.

[Hoddo]

NDA said:

What were the files out of interest?

My mail apps use the most space on my Air.... Yahoo particularly.

Although I thoroughly deleted and removed Google's Picasa there was over 7GB of files stored deeply in the library! Annoying.

[Hoddo]

NDA said:

What were the files out of interest?

My mail apps use the most space on my Air.... Yahoo particularly.

Although I thoroughly deleted and removed Google's Picasa there was over 7GB of files stored deeply in the library! Annoying.

[megaphone]

You're using over twice the amount of space for apps than my iMac, there must be something wrong somewhere.

[Leithen]

Omnidisksweeper is very good in this situation.

[Hoddo]

Here is a head scratcher.

Under the 'About This Mac' storage menu it says I have 57GB of 'Apps' and 29GB of 'Photos'. When I run the OmniDiskSweeper (thank you for the recommendation) it says I have used ball park 56GB in total (including photos as you can see).

So here we have the question; where is the storage being taken as OmniDickSweeper is coming up 30GB short.

[jmorgan]

Two Application folders, anything for multiple log ins?

[Hoddo]

jmorgan said:

Two Application folders, anything for multiple log ins?

The Mrs has her own user account but there is nothing there. She uses once a month to buy a few items from Amazon. I can't see how that would take up space - am I missing something? Would the system map the whole operating system to create a new user? Even so, that wouldn't account for 30GB would it?

[jmorgan]

Mine has 66.32 on the system info. 54.3 on Omni. 57.5 if I look at the App folder directly.

Not sure why, someone with more knowledge will probably know. I tend to drill down in the folder and the view with file size does not show folders contents, maybe that is part of the size check and is missing something? I right click then info a folder or open it to size the contents.

[Leithen]

It appears to be most commonly related to Omni being unable to read other user's accounts - see;

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2679135?tstar...

and

http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=930

[Hoddo]

Leithen said:

It appears to be most commonly related to Omni being unable to read other user's accounts - see;

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2679135?tstar...

and

http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=930

Removed all other user accounts and it made zero difference! Incredibly frustrating.

May have to do a full system wipe and reinstall Yosemite.

[Leithen]

Hoddo said:

Removed all other user accounts and it made zero difference! Incredibly frustrating.

May have to do a full system wipe and reinstall Yosemite.

Have you checked your disk in disk utility?

[qube_TA]

/Applications doesn't store everything App-wise, you have a ton of supporting stuff in Library and ~/Library

Application Support for example will have a lot of content.

On my machines these folders are far larger than /Applications. It depends upon what you have installed as to what's likely to be there.

It's worth noting that if you delete something from Applications it'll leave behind anything outside of that directory unless you manually delete those as well or use something like AppZapper to remove them automatically (handy for removing stuff like GarageBand that I was never going to use and is installed by default, takes up a load of space too).

[jmorgan]

Don't get drastic. I bet its there under your nose if you drill into the app support as well. But under Apps folder for example, my MS Office 2011 is 1.3GB bit there is no size in the view in Finder. If I right click that folder I get the size. Are all these other apps not getting the folder size?

[qube_TA]

open Terminal

type cd /
then sudo du -hd1

it'll prompt for your password

You'll get an output similar to:

6.1M ./.DocumentRevisions-V100
24M ./.fseventsd
0B ./.PKInstallSandboxManager
471M ./.Spotlight-V100
0B ./.Trashes
0B ./.vol
8.6G ./Applications
2.3M ./bin
0B ./cores
4.5K ./dev
1.0K ./home
4.2G ./Library
1.0K ./net
0B ./Network
157M ./opt
3.9G ./private
1004K ./sbin
5.0G ./System
19G ./Users
507M ./usr
4.0K ./Volumes
42G .