[Leica] OT: Lightroom taking up space on iMac?

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

>Yeah but the backups are on an external HD otherwise I would have 
>thought that's what happened. Maybe there's an LR folder on my 
>computer HD I'm not aware of?
>
>Still looking.
>
>Chris


Hi Chris (and other Mac users), have a look at:

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/

This utility has recently become freeware, so now everyone should 
have it. It tells you where your hard disk went, including all the 
hidden files (remove those at your peril unless you know exactly what 
you're doing!).

I've used it for years to locate big files on peoples disks that eat 
up disk space.

Also running Applejack once in a while can help, especially if you 
turn off your Mac at night or use a notebook:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack/

It does disk cleaning to various levels, but I run it on my laptop 
regularly at the least powerful level by typing in 'applejack auto 
restart' at the prompt, after starting up the mac in single user mode 
by holding down command-s after the boing (after installing 
Applejack).

It cleans the caches, the virtual memory spaces etc so it often helps 
with disk space.

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