Cant find files, 20 gig gone, plzz help

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neiz
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Cant find files, 20 gig gone, plzz help

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hi!

Installed the sims that was to windows whit help of wine but it didn't work so i deleted wine and noticed that the sims stil taking upp place on my mac and now i can't find the files to delete it, can someone help me get 20 gig back plzz?





P.s why i installed the sims for pc on mac is becouse i had all expansions on my hard drive already and was to lazy download them again for mac.
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Re: Cant find files, 20 gig gone, plzz help

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Look for a hidden folder in your home folder called .wine

Since it starts with a . it is hidden and Finder won't see it by default.

You can remove it command line, but be very careful to do it right, or you may remove something you don't want to lose, and there is no Trash Can

This is the command to force delete a directory, including the directory to delete in your home folder.

rm -rf ~/.wine

Everything Wine made in there will be gone, which includes the fake drive C folder your Sims should have installed to.
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Re: Cant find files, 20 gig gone, plzz help

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doh123 wrote:Look for a hidden folder in your home folder called .wine

Since it starts with a . it is hidden and Finder won't see it by default.

You can remove it command line, but be very careful to do it right, or you may remove something you don't want to lose, and there is no Trash Can

This is the command to force delete a directory, including the directory to delete in your home folder.

rm -rf ~/.wine

Everything Wine made in there will be gone, which includes the fake drive C folder your Sims should have installed to.
i did delete this folder after i deleted wine from mac, but it didn't bring back the storage. i tried the command and it said that such folder does not exist.
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Re: Cant find files, 20 gig gone, plzz help

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There shouldn't be anywhere else your game installed files too... are you sure the space is really gone?
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