One moment there was 65GB of free space on my MacPro – then there was ony 25GB. What happened, where was the culprit, how to get that space back?
The answer was a wonderful utility from Tjark Derlien called Disk Inventory X. Not only does it list all of your folders and files in size order it has a great visual representation of the files as well. Click a large colored square and it pops us the name location and details of the abnormally large file.
It turned out that log.smbd had grown to 40GB in size, complaining of too many files. As to why that happened is another story, but Disk Inventory X could also be very useful for anybody trying to reduce the size of their important files in order to shoehorn their digital life into a MacBook Air.
