[HOWTO] - Gain Missing Disk Space

[Androo]

wow!
maybe cache, or just some megabyte eating thingy...

[mac_vs_pc]

The best utility I have found by far for OSX and it is absolutly free is a program called, "Macjanitor." It is GUI based program that forces the already existing Apple Daily, Weekly, and Monthly scripts to run. These scripts clean up and compact the cache and other "behind the scenes" of OSX. The problem is most people don't realize that these scripts exist and so they shut the power down on their machines, thus the Apple scripts can't run. And so over time, the junk files continue to accumulate. They are supposed to run some time in the late night hours. The first time I used this utility, I did actually see a performance increase and a significant chuck of hard-drive was opened up. I would go to Versiontracker and search for this utility. You will be glad you did. Best of luck

[buells1]

The best utility I have found by far for OSX and it is absolutly free is a program called, "Macjanitor." It is GUI based program that forces the already existing Apple Daily, Weekly, and Monthly scripts to run.

I have found that OnyX 1.4.6 does as good or better. Let me know if you try it.

[fryke]

To find space hogs, I always use OmniDiskSweeper, a wonderful application that lists your harddrive by sizes. Helps very much.

[Randman]

Getting rid of unneeded printer setups also helps regain some space. I have a Canon printer so I just leave the Canon stuff in. IfI ever changed, I'd just resintall or download the printers needed.
I also trash EULAs, Read Mes, acknowledgements logs. I trash samples of apps I'm very comfortable with. iPhotoDiet will help with photos. Deleting Classic apps you don't need works well. iDVD eats up space if you don't use (and if you do, you can still delete templates you don't use). GarageBand and JamPack has a couple of dozen duplicated loops (osxhints has the list).
I've also gone through and deleted the installed desktop images I don't want.