A friend of mine has written to me:
I keep getting message ‘delete some files’ as there’s a memory [disk space] problem with my laptop. Which files would you delete?
I would delete the biggest files first! Don’t delete anything in your Windows directory though, or Windows might stop working.
You can bring up Windows Explorer and sort by file size.
I’d look in your downloads folder first. Any video is likely to be large. Sounds files can also be quite large.
To find some large files, start by doing what it says here: http://www.dummies.com/
There are free utilities that can search your whole disk and show you the biggest files. Have a look here, and probably start by downloading the first one, Treesize Free:
If you’ve never tried this, the resultant graphical representation of file sizes will blow your mind:
https://windirstat.net/
It’s small, it’s light, it’s free.
Thanks for that suggestion. I’m on a Mac, but I hope that others will find it useful.
Disk Inventory X is the same thing but for the Mac:
http://www.derlien.com
Enjoy!