Where are all the files on my iMac
Posted: April 10th, 2013, 4:43 am
My 1TB Mac HD shows 975GB used. When I go to the "Favorites" sidebar and total all of the categories set by OSX 10.8.3 they do not add up to that number.
The categories "shown" are : 1. All My Files, 2. AirDrop, 3. Applications, 4. Desktop, 5. Documents, 6. Downloads, 7. Movies, 8. Music, 9. Pictures.
All of these categories only total about 471 GB. That means there are appx 504 GB are "Not counted" in these categories. I thought that All My Files" would logically included a reference to all my files on this computer or hard disk. Another place where don't assume logic and programming follows any common sense?
I am an avid amateur photographer and I have thousands and thousands of photos and some are in the "Pictures" category but many are not, because I first import all photos onto my general HD and then, as I work on them, I determine how I will catalog them and where I will place them. (I DO NOT USE AND I DO NOT LIKE IPHOTO) Then there is also the problem of backups and copies of copies, etc, so it is a nightmare trying to determine how many of each photo I really have. (I haven't found anything yet that really finds them all...
I have the RAW originals, then the RAW backups, then the RAW working files and then TIFF's and JPEG's in different configurations for screen (internet) and for hard copy printing. and on and on and on...
Are all these and other files just scattered throughout the HD or is there a way to combine them into 1 area? I need to move files to another external disk (I have three external drives) that include many of these same files but I am not sure which ones... and if I delete... then that will surly be the "important file" that I must find...
What do you suggest? How can I make sense of all this chaos?
The categories "shown" are : 1. All My Files, 2. AirDrop, 3. Applications, 4. Desktop, 5. Documents, 6. Downloads, 7. Movies, 8. Music, 9. Pictures.
All of these categories only total about 471 GB. That means there are appx 504 GB are "Not counted" in these categories. I thought that All My Files" would logically included a reference to all my files on this computer or hard disk. Another place where don't assume logic and programming follows any common sense?
I am an avid amateur photographer and I have thousands and thousands of photos and some are in the "Pictures" category but many are not, because I first import all photos onto my general HD and then, as I work on them, I determine how I will catalog them and where I will place them. (I DO NOT USE AND I DO NOT LIKE IPHOTO) Then there is also the problem of backups and copies of copies, etc, so it is a nightmare trying to determine how many of each photo I really have. (I haven't found anything yet that really finds them all...
I have the RAW originals, then the RAW backups, then the RAW working files and then TIFF's and JPEG's in different configurations for screen (internet) and for hard copy printing. and on and on and on...
Are all these and other files just scattered throughout the HD or is there a way to combine them into 1 area? I need to move files to another external disk (I have three external drives) that include many of these same files but I am not sure which ones... and if I delete... then that will surly be the "important file" that I must find...
What do you suggest? How can I make sense of all this chaos?