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Thread: Find out how much space each app takes up
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11-21-2010, 12:03 PM #1
Find out how much space each app takes up
Hey guys

I ran out of space on my iPhone, so I was trying to figure out what apps to delete to make room. I realized there's no convenient way of figuring out how much space each app uses, so I came up with an idea.
From your command prompt on your iPhone, paste this command in:
(cd /private/var/mobile/Applications ; du -k |grep '\./[^/]*$' | while read L ; do DIR=`echo $L|cut -d/ -f 2` ; SZ=`echo $L|cut -d\ -f 1` ; printf "%10.d " $SZ ; ls -d $DIR/*.app; done | sort)
It can take a minute if you have a lot of apps installed.
It will give you a readout that looks a little like this:
The amount of space, in KB that the app takes up is on the left. On the right is the app's foldername/name.Code:13392 9CC26280-7F25-401C-B207-9FFAD23CADA3/BBC News.app 14552 555C3910-3772-4197-8A7A-3120F7B1B08C/NPRRadio.app 14632 A8364628-92E0-46D6-A93D-1DBAACB379E5/eBay.app 16640 A6984986-811D-4E5D-9C2D-30A63D08CEB1/Twitter.app 22944 77870D05-D379-4287-A220-0BEF1B10D52C/Facebook.app 31128 75CF44CF-6E77-4B2B-BE80-464A2E2F53DD/Stanza.app 31912 E5645166-D6B5-4D25-A91C-16D0E101EFA8/iTrainer.app 44704 9E6066EE-F4B4-4523-950B-2CAA8044E9A5/Alive4ever.app 133536 D4181041-AD4E-4D1E-97BE-0094CFF1456D/BladesOfFury.app 204504 B7EED8F7-3342-4939-A6C2-0CC2F88BA3B8/RealRacing 4.1.app 1936240 75835953-60AF-4B42-8FDD-F28C9939098A/CoPilot_NA.app
Hope you find this useful
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11-21-2010, 12:06 PM #2Retired Moderator
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I usually just look in iTunes but cool
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11-21-2010, 12:30 PM #3
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11-21-2010, 12:32 PM #4Retired Moderator
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ah I see, very cool. I guess I never noticed a huge difference.
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12-13-2010, 08:25 AM #5
Minute Dreamer great work! but I can't get it to type that in terminal, its long and to be honest im not experienced in terminal and don't know the first thing about commands, marks, etc. i tried to do it but gibberish came out and im sure i messed up on one of the commands it took me some time to find each symbol. im newbie
sooo, I was wondering if you knew a way i could paste that into terminal, i did a google search and found pasting into terminal is apparentely not so apparent. some people mentionned pasteboardstacker, that is no longer available in cydia so thats not an option.
ANY help is appreciated i really would like to know how to much app/data is on my phone, btw how did you do it, just type that into terminal? thanks in advance




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