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Re: User folder size confusion

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In message <l05dji$vaf$1@dont-email.me> 
  John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 8/31/13   PDT 1:50 PM, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <chine.bleu-29B8AE.16445230082013@news.eternal-september.org>
>>    Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> In article <SalmonEgg-94AEF1.16293630082013@news80.forteinc.com>,
>>>   Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> I am using SnowLeopard on a Mac Pro desktop. I am trying to install a
>>>> SSD considerably smaller than my present rotating boot drive, WDHD. In
>>>> the process, I am trying to find disk space that is not really needed.
>>>>
>>>> In the Finder, I click on my boot disk as displayed in list format. I
>>>> get a list of folders. I highlight "Users" and click to get size
>>>> information. 287.18 GB. That seems large, and everything else in the
>>>> volume is a tenth tge size--the largest about 15GB. No surprises there.
>>>>
>>>> I try to find out what the largest pieces of the almost300GB are. I
>>>> click on the left hand triangle to look at the inner list in more
>>>> detail. Sure enough, the account name shows up, but it is shown as an
>>>> alias. The unlogged in users show up as folders. I can get information
>>>> on their sizes.
>>
>>> You can find large folders with du, such as
>>>      du /Users | sort -n -r
>>
>> Much better and faster to use find to find the large files. That will give you the large folders in nearly every case.
>>
>>     sudo find /Users -size +500M -ls
>>
>> will give you all the files over 500MB.
>>
>>     sudo find /Users -size +1G -ls
>>
>> for all the files over 1GB

> I have used Finder's find function with Size added. Seems to work ok. 
> But what does "sudo find" do?

From the command line, sudo will elevate the privileges of the command,
so you can scan not just your home folder, but all the home folders for
large files.


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User folder size confusion Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-08-30 16:29 -0700
  Re: User folder size confusion Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2013-08-30 16:44 -0700
    Re: User folder size confusion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-08-31 20:50 +0000
      Re: User folder size confusion John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-09-03 12:34 -0700
        Re: User folder size confusion Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-03 17:49 -0400
          Re: User folder size confusion John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-09-03 15:32 -0700
            Re: User folder size confusion Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-03 16:48 -0700
            Re: User folder size confusion Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-03 20:48 -0400
        Re: User folder size confusion Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 17:45 -0700
          Re: User folder size confusion Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-03 18:06 -0700
            Re: User folder size confusion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-06 15:05 +0000
        Re: User folder size confusion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-04 22:06 +0000
  Re: User folder size confusion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-08-30 19:51 -0400
  Re: User folder size confusion Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-08-31 06:27 -0700
    Re: User folder size confusion me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-09-02 02:22 +0000
      Re: User folder size confusion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-01 22:46 -0400
        Re: User folder size confusion nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2013-09-02 07:00 -0600
          Re: User folder size confusion Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-09-02 09:21 -0700
            Re: User folder size confusion nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2013-09-04 03:29 -0600
              Re: User folder size confusion Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-09-04 10:49 -0700
      Re: User folder size confusion Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-09-02 16:38 -0700
      Re: User folder size confusion Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-09-02 16:45 -0700
  Re: User folder size confusion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-08-31 20:46 +0000

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