Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com. Check out Finding the Largest Files On Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. You can then use the drop-down menus to select the File Size and Greater Than options. Click the drive you want to search, open the search window, and hit the + button next to the Save button at the top right. Finder has a built-in way for finding large files with Spotlight search. Find Large Files Manually.To search for a unique string in a file: grep searchstring filename. By default, grep prints the matching lines. Browse the list of all downloadable files (Archives) SoftEther VPN is freeware.The grep tool searches the named input files for lines containing a match to the given pattern.Or maybe you're just having a contest with a friend to see who has the largest files on their Mac. Maybe you want to do spring cleaning and you figure the largest files are the best place to start. Maybe you need to quickly free up space and you figure the best way to do that is to find a couple files you don't need and delete them. Join us and get exclusive content.There are many free and paid methods of finding and deleting larger files on Mac, including Finder, the Storage Management app, or Terminal, this article.So there are a lot of reasons you may want to search for the largest files on your Mac. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. Go to MacMost.com/patreon.So make it pretty much fill the screen because you'll need a lot of space. That way you could size it for what you want. I'm going to show you both methods.To find your largest files in using the Finder first it's a good idea to create a new finder window. But for typical Mac users it's probably best to use a special system utility. You can do a Finder search by file size and then sort to see which files are the largest.
Search For All Large Files Mac At YouTubeIt'll be the current folder that you're looking at but you want to change it to This Mac. So as an example I'll do 100 MB and this will show me files that are larger than 100 MB.Now I want to change the Search domain or the search area. Change equals to is greater than and then enter a pretty large number here. The criteria for the search. Then you can ignore the Search box up here and go directly to the Modifications right there. ![]() I'm going to see System files, Library files, all sorts of things in here that I may not want to be mixed in with the documents I actually want to find. Now it's not as useful as you would think because I'm looking at the entire Mac. So make sure Size is selected so it appears there.So now, with this sorted by size, I see the largest files at the top. But even if you are using iCloud Drive you're still going to find things like Movies, Music, Pictures, Downloads, and some other things that would be on your local drive not stored in iCloud Drive.So if you do the same search here, I'm going to do Command F, File Size, is greater than 100 MB. Home is going to be where you're going to have your Documents and Desktop folder if you're not using iCloud Drive. There are going to be four places that you should check.Use the Go menu and go Home. Here's something pretty big and I can tell it's in my Downloads folder. So of course those are video files and it makes sense I'm using a lot of space there. I see I do indeed have a lot stored in Final Cut Pro and iMovie. Here I get something very useful. Best gif player for macCommand F, File Size, is greater than, 100 MB. So that's the first place to look.The second place to look is if you are using iCloud Drive use Go, iCloud Drive and do the same search here. Here's a video file that's taking up some space as well. You'll have them sorted so you can see which apps are pretty big. If you do that search here then you'll find any apps that are taking up more than 100 MB. The third location is Go, then Applications. I do find several things that are larger than 10 MB. Now if you don't find anything that's this size you may want to shrink the size a bit. Now if you use the Go menu you're not going to see it here unless you hold down the Option key and then it appears. If it's an app from a third party developer make sure you use their official uninstall method.The last place I want you to look is your User Library folder. What you should do is go to Launchpad and then click and hold an app to get the little x's there and uninstall it that way. I'm going to show you a better way to look at these in a minute. Ah! Okay so these are iPad and iPhone backups. So I click on this file here and I see it's Library Application Support Mobile Sync Backup. It's going to be hard to interpret what's here but sometimes the path can give you a clue. It's actually part of Chrome. You look at the path library, Applications for Goggle Chrome. If I shrink to 10 MB, for instance, you may see this. It may take a few minutes for these spinners to stop after calculations are done. Here you can get all these categories on the left. Go to the Apple Menu and About This Mac. There is a Delete button there as well. So it is showing you all of your stuff. For instance this is in the Movies folder here. It shows you everything in your User folder. I wouldn't just delete it here.Now Documents, you would think would show you your Documents folder, but actually it shows you more than that. You could also select one and then choose to Delete it although I would recommend using the official uninstall method, either Launchpad or for an app like this, an Adobe app, there's a way to uninstall through Adobe. These are really old backups because this is a demo account. So here I've got three backups. I talked about backups a minute ago. If you want to jump to that folder in the Finder you can use this Show in Finder button here.Now this method shows you two locations that could be taking up a lot of space in your hard drive that are hard to see otherwise. They all may be too small together to show up but the backup itself here may be pretty big. You saw all those files that showed up in your Library folder before. That could save a lot of space. I can actually select that and use this Delete button here to get rid of it. I may not realize that I still have a backup for my old iPhone there. ![]() You may want to keep them around even if you don't need to use them all the time. In that case you would have to login as them or have that person login in their User Account and maybe do some cleaning in there.So when you find those large files you may not just want to delete them. That may be taking up a lot of space. You can then Archive that project to an external drive so you still having it around but you free up that space on your internal drive to use for other things. Like if you create videos or music and you have this project and you finished with it but you don't want to delete it but you're probably not going to be going back to it anytime soon. This is especially useful if you create project based work. That's to get an external drive and then copy those files to an external drive, delete the originals on your Mac, and then know that you can always go back to that external drive if you need to get access to those files again.
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