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Omnidisksweeper can help you find large files on your computer and delete them.
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everyone today I'm going to show you how
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you can find the big files on your hard
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drive and delete them so that you can
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free up some more space now I'm sure
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that after time this happens to everyone
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their hard drive starts to fill up and
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the more you have on there the slower
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your Mac's gonna get and if you don't
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need the files on there why bother
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having there so there's easy utility
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that lets you delete the unused big
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files that you don't need and it helps
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you figure out which files are taking a
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low space on your hard drive and that
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tool is called disk sweeper so if you go
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to my group at comm you're gonna see
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this webpage and what you can do from
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here you just can click on the products
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tab at the top and then you scroll down
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and under free products it's a free
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download it I'm nadeska looper so if you
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click on this and you click on download
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up here towards the top it's going to
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bring you to a download page where you
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can download the file once it finishes
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downloading can open up the disk image
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for you to the License Agreement and
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just drag on the disk sweeper to your
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Applications folder then you can launch
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it and it's gonna show you right here a
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list of all the drives connected to your
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computer so you can see I have my
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Macintosh HD hard drive here and then my
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Time Machine backups so what do you want
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to do is you want to take your main hard
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drive for whatever disk that you're
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looking to get big files off of selected
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and then click sweep the drive what it's
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gonna do is it's gonna bring up this
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window and on the left hand side you're
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gonna see a list of all the folders that
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are in the root of your hard drive both
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hidden and not hidden
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now it's gonna look through your hard
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drive and it's going to scan over all
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the files on your drive and categorize
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them based on size and it'll show you
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once it finishes the folders that have
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the side listed in red aren't finished
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indexing yet and the ones that are in
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green
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and once it's in purple like you see
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applications it's finished and it's
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gonna look through it's gonna figure out
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how big each file is and how big each
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folder is and it classes them in lists
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of size so now you can see it's finished
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sizing my hard drive and everything is
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categorized in lists of size and my top
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folder is my users folder which of
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course is going to be the biggest
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contains all my documents and movies and
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photos and music things like that at 104
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gigabytes so from here you can click on
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any folder that's in your hard drive
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let's say the system folder and it's
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going to tell you your it goes in a list
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order so that I could click on library
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and then I have everything in from here
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and every single file on your hard drive
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has the size next to it and folder so
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let's say there's something big in this
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frameworks folder I can look and see
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what's taking up the most room in there
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and down here below it gives you some
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details about it it's as part of
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packages update that security that 2009
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dot 0 0 1 so you can see a little more
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information about it now just a little
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general warning things that are in your
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system folder you probably don't want to
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delete just kind of a warning it's
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safest not to delete things that are in
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your system folder or in private or you
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know in anything that's a folder that
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you don't regularly use you probably
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don't want to delete stuff from even
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your Applications folder you know if you
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delete your main apps that you live
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let's use all the time that could be a
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problem just because it's a big file
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doesn't mean that you should delete it
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so let's just look at my users folder
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you can see it's a rather large folder
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and maybe there's something in music I
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don't want let's say for some reason I
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want to give over my entire iTunes
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library I could do that from here now
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once again not recommended all I have to
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do is select the folder right here I
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have my iTunes folder selected and I
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could go down to the delete button right
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here click on it and it's going to say
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destroy the selected files you aren't
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getting them back so make sure you
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really want them gone so kind of a
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warning and then of course click destroy
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and it says destroy for a reason because
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it really is just destroying everything
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so
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always be careful so I'm definitely not
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going to destroy this now if I double
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click on the folder down in the corner
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here it's going to open up that folder
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in a Finder window so that I can see
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where it is in a more traditional view
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if I wanted to now let's say I don't
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want to size my entire hard drive
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because it does take a while I can go to
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the file menu and click size folder and
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from here it's gonna give me a menu
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where I can just choose to size a
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specific folder so let's say I want to
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just size my documents folder and I can
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click open and from here it's going to
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just size that folder and you can see it
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rather quickly I didn't have to waste my
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time sizing everything else and it you
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can see that I do have some pretty large
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files in there too now I can also just
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size my home folder from my file menu
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right here and that's probably the
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safest option because most of the stuff
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in your home folder isn't gonna really
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hurt you that bad if you would
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accidentally delete something with the
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exception of like your iTunes library or
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things like that so basically as long as
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you're careful and you don't delete
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things that you shouldn't be so just you
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know take fair warning and look what
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you're doing before you do it I'm this
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sweeper can be a very helpful utility
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and very useful in saving you space on
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your hard drive
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I know I've probably gained at least 50
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gigabytes of space back after using this
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tool and it's very useful and it can
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really help you out a lot so I hope your
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phone that's very useful and thank you
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for watching
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