Hard drive almost full notification- can't find files

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I have a 128 gig boot drive. I'm getting an almost full notification. When I look at folder sizes, I see that users>me is showing 76 gigs. But there are no folders showing with anything near that amount when I show by size. I've checked each folder and emptied my dropbox folder and where all of this data is at, is a mystery.
 
You can show all the hidden folders on your drive.
Press Shift-Command-. (period)
Press the same Shift-Command-. to re-hide those normally-invisible folders/files
 
DeltaMac said:
You can show all the hidden folders on your drive.
Press Shift-Command-. (period)
Press the same Shift-Command-. to re-hide those normally-invisible folders/files
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I did the command but no hidden. Any other ideas? I ran a trojan scan, and nothing. Thanks!
 
Remembering that the system does use the hard drive for memory, what are you running when that message comes up? It could be (and I have been known to be wrong) that something is running that is a super memory hog.
 
KKnographer said:
I did the command but no hidden. Any other ideas? I ran a trojan scan, and nothing. Thanks!
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"no hidden"?
There are absolutely hidden files on every Mac.
What version of the system are you running? (that keyboard shortcut does not work with El Capitan (OS X 10.11) and older.)
You said that you didn't find enough files stored in /Users/me to add up to the space that the folder reports.
Go to /Users/(me)/Library.
(hint: that Library folder has been hidden by default on all Mac systems since OS X 10.7)
Here's a link to a method to show your hidden files, with a terminal command - https://www.lifewire.com/view-hidden-mac-folders-using-terminal-2260776
 
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