Vinit Kumar

Advanced Mac Storage Cleanup: Command Line Guide for Power Users

April 16, 2015

screenshot Sometimes, your Mac is filled up with files and you canโ€™t seem to understand what really is taking much space. Here is how you can find out. - First of all find disk usage and save it to a log file. Also, find all big files that are there. Grepping using โ€˜Gโ€™ would find all files that are in GB. Also, save the second list to another file so that we are only doing it once. sh du -h > ~/space. log cat ~/space. log | awk '{print $1}' | grep 'G' > ~/highspace. log Next, open a split window and do sh cat ~/highspace. log And Now, start finding the ones which are big one by one. Letโ€™s say one of the entry was 5.6G, Letโ€™s find which one was it. ```sh cat ~/space. log | fgrep -f highspace. log #It will give something like this: 1.2G./.Android/avd/Nexus_6_API_21.avd 2.7G./.Android/avd 2.7G./.Android

following: ```sh sudo rm -rf Documents/Movie. avi ``` Voila! Repeat this process and remove all files and directories that you no longer need. # Disclaimer: Do it very patiently and backup everything that's important. This guide is for very advanced users and you should only do it if you know what you are doing. I am not responsible for any data loss. Do it at your own risk.

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