To see how big all your folders are, launch Terminal and enter du -sh ./*
Sample output:
355M ./Desktop 1.3M ./Documents 242M ./Library 116M ./Movies 283M ./Music 33M ./Pictures 24K ./Public 228K ./Sites 44K ./bin 4.0K ./dev 195M ./safari-downloads 119M ./tmpExplaination:
du
is 'disk usage,' -s
means 'just for the files named' (otherwise it'll dig through and count every subdirectory and file) and -h
means 'human readable'--it'll report in MB or GB or whatever is appropriate, rather than a gigantic number of kilobytes.
sudo du -sh /Users/*
sudo du -sh /Users/*/*
14M /Users/admin/Desktop 344K /Users/admin/Documents 36M /Users/admin/Library 0B /Users/admin/Movies 24K /Users/admin/Music 127M /Users/admin/My Applications 0B /Users/admin/Pictures 142M /Users/admin/Public 28K /Users/admin/Sites 1.4G /Users/brian/Desktop 1.1M /Users/brian/Documents 257M /Users/brian/Libraryetc.