If you get stuck, install Teamviewer QuickSupport for Mac and email me the ID & password directly, I’ll take a look. I’ll be at my desk all of today unfortunately! _ Regards Sam Mullen
+44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.com <http://www.macambulance.com/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 5 Aug 2025, at 06:43, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Many thanks Sam for that suggestion. I will give it a try shortly. Just glad > at the moment I still have the M1! > Nick > >> On 4 Aug 2025, at 23:08, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Try resetting the spotlight indexes, in Terminal : >> >> sudo mdutil -E / >> >> Push return, type your password and push return. >> _ >> Regards >> Sam Mullen >> >> +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> www.macambulance.com <http://www.macambulance.com/> >> >> MacAmbulance Ltd. >> Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development >> >> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration >> number 8466597 >> >> This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain >> privileged or confidential information. >> >> If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete >> the email immediately. >> >> >>> On 4 Aug 2025, at 20:22, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi fellow smuggers, >>> When I made a final Time Machine copy of the 512GB SSD in my M1 MacBook Air >>> there was about 280GB free space. By the time I had migrated the Time >>> Machine backup to the M4 MacBook Air (also 512GB SSD) the free space had >>> reduced to about 220GB. >>> Just now it was showing 181GB free space so I did a restart thinking that >>> would get rid of some junk files and the free space would increase….but NO! >>> Now it is saying only 150GB. >>> 2 months ago I went to a Genius Bar with this problem. I eventually >>> reinstalled the OS (latest version of Sequoia & updated to 15.6 a couple >>> of days ago). Nothing very helpful but the possible culprit is Spotlight >>> (please see the attached screenshot from a few minutes ago). >>> >>> Finally I still have the M1 and it’s updating via iCloud and still shows >>> about 280GB free space. I thought I would be better off with the M4 but at >>> the moment that’s not the case. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To view this discussion, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/3099083E-6B18-4887-88AF-1BA9CCE95BE5%40mac.com. >>> <Screenshot 2025-08-04 at 20.10.28.png> >>> >>> Any suggestions gratefully received, >>> Nick >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To view this discussion, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/3099083E-6B18-4887-88AF-1BA9CCE95BE5%40mac.com. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To view this discussion, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/FB02D084-B106-4197-85C9-7BF1D4B34ED9%40macambulance.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/FB02D084-B106-4197-85C9-7BF1D4B34ED9%40macambulance.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/0B902A9F-DF6C-453A-BBB9-2E5BA06737C1%40mac.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/0B902A9F-DF6C-453A-BBB9-2E5BA06737C1%40mac.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/362308D5-5037-4E2F-9E65-A0F40723044E%40macambulance.com.
