That's not bad at all. There are some hidden things that can take up
space. How are you finding the free space count? There are a few hidden
things that can still throw off the overall math. The recovery partition
and such take about 1GB. I have a hidden folder called MobileBackups
which is about 1GB. If you're using MacPorts or the like your /opt and
/private folders can be a dozen or so GB.
CB
On 7/31/15 2:39 PM, Pablo Sandoval wrote:
Ok, so I’ve downloaded and ran “Disk Doctor” as suggested by a lister.
I’ve also enabled “calculate all sizes” and my applications folder is 17.28gb,
Libraries is 5.17gb, system folder is 9.81gb, and my users folder is 17.43gb.
Total space used should be down around 50gb, any ideas guys/gals?
I’m still showing 81gb used.
Any ideas?
On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:25 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Odd. Then your free space should reflect those files being gone. One handy way to figure out where
you space went is to open your hard drive, make sure you are in list view (command+2) and then go
to View Options (command-J). That pops up a window with extra options checkboxes. At the bottom of
that list of checkboxes is one that says Calculate all sizes. Check that one and then command ~ to
jump back to your list view of the hard drive and there will be a Size column. Usually for folders
the size is just "--" but the Mac will start totaling up all the files and replace those
"--" with actual numbers. You can then start to focus on the folders with the most space
used and start to drill down to figure out what's using the most space. The Calculate all sizes
beats on your hard drive making (ad updating) all those totals so when you're done you'll want to
turn that back off. My Applications folder is 71GB while my OSX 10.10.4 system is only 11GB. I
would expect the bulk of the deletable stuff to be either apps you no longer need or stuff under
Users/youraccountnamefolder.
CB
On 7/31/15 12:06 PM, Pablo Sandoval wrote:
No it is empty.
On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:00 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
If you open the trash, is there still anything in it?
CB
On 7/31/15 10:43 AM, Pablo Sandoval wrote:
Hi everyone,
I’ve just noticed the usage on my Mac HD is getting more full than I like.
I’ve just deleted several gigs of data, and I am not seeing the space freed up
like I expected. Only a couple hundred megs freed up. I have emptied the trash,
and am not sure what I need to do to see this newly emptied space.
I’ve even restarted the Mac to see if something was hanging.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thank you.
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