My MacBook Pro has been running out of space for some time and I have put off the inevitable tidy. It was down to its last 20 GB where it always starts to get into trouble. (That seems like a lot to me as I had older macs that didn’t have that in total).

Anyway time to lose some stuff, so I searched (cmd-space) for the usual culprits: .dmg, .ps files for instance but thought there must be a better approach. Hurrah, http://www.omnigroup.com are doing a public beta of omnidisksweeper, so a quick download gets me a scientific approach to finding large files. And so it does; finding that my Applications folder has ballooned to 70GB – big for a 200 GB disk. The real culprit it turns out are files in my vmware folder; 8 GB files ending .vmdk that contain backed up data used by vmware Fusion to snap the system configuration! These must be deleted from Fusion itself once the guest system has suspended. My new consolidated Fusion disk has returned 29GB to me. So I can continue not to be tidy!