OS X V10.7 Lion :: Free Space Reported On Boot Drive In Get Info
Jun 6, 2012Get Info overstates the free space on my boot drive. Disk Utility reports ~295 GB; Get Info reports ~467 GB out of 500.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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MacBook Air :: Incorrect Free Space Reported Options?
Aug 1, 2010It appears that either disk utility or finder are misreporting the free space available on my main partition. Finder indicates there's 33GB available and disk utility inidcates there's only 23GB available. Anyone know why there's a discrepancy? Which figure is the right one?Also I'm trying to resize the partition (to be smaller) but disk utility always errors out on my. I want to increase the size of my windows partition since i'm finding I need the space there more than I need it in OS X.
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Dec 28, 2010not luck finding an answer with search function or google. just covering my bases here. I'm running a Macbook Pro 13" with Windows 7 via Boot Camp. I made my partition 30GB when installing Windows, thinking it would be more than enough for what I needed, especially after reading this. Quote: I opted for 20GB, which left me with just a bit over 16GB to use after installing Windows 7. from: [URL:...] So I figured 30GB would mean I would have up to 26 GB of free space to play with after install. My problem is, I only have 12.5GB free space left over to play with and seemingly my Windows 7 installation is what, 17GB? I'm sort of thinking maybe for whatever reason there's a copy of my Windows 7 installation files somewhere on the partition that didn't get deleted, or all the expanded files used for installation are still sitting somewhere. Before I go ahead and delete the partition and reinstall Windows 7 again, I'd like to know if Windows7 is actually that bloody big and why on the guide I read it says it's only 4GB?
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Jun 21, 2012My USB thumb drive won't update the amount of free space. It's constantly saying it is full, even if I delete the files on it. Â
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iMac 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, iPhone OS 3.1.2, Mac OS X Lion 10.7
MacBook :: Free Up Space On Hard Drive / Program For Defragmenting Space?
Jan 19, 2009I only have like 8 gb left on my macbook's hard drive. Are there any programs I can run that will defrag/free up space? How much does Apple Store typically charge to upgrade a hard drive? How easy is it to do myself?
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Aug 14, 2009I have a Macbook PRO 17" with a 160GB hard drive. When I click on the "Macintosh" icon on my desktop and "get info" it says that my capacity is 148.73GB and that I've used 134.28GB only leaving me 14.45GB of availability. For the life of me I can't figure out how the 134GB is calculated. If I click on my username and "get info" the folder size is 103GB. So where is the other 30GB used up at?
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Oct 15, 2010It seems like I'm always fluctuating between 2 and 9 gb of free space on my hard drive. Every time I need lots of space it seems to disappear, then it reappears in a week. Is this normal? If I'm low is there something I can run to bring this space back?
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Jun 9, 2009I have a 500GB external hard drive that is partitioned into 3 sections - [1] Mac OS extended for dedicated time machine backups (200GB), [2] Mac OS extended for general file storage (100GB) and [3] FAT32 for backing up my husband's windows PC (the rest). I've been doing some video editing and moving clips between the external HD and my macbook. But now I've finished I noticed that something weird has happened. The Mac partition of the external HD currently has only 3 files, around 1.2GB. But Finder is showing 77GB is used and therefore not letting me copy my DV footage (around 40GB) that I want to transfer to a friend's computer.
I've put a screenshot here - and have hidden files/folders displayed. So what is taking up the 76GB that finder says is used?
OS X :: Formatting Free Space On Ntfs Drive To HFS+
May 22, 2010I have a hard drive that had 2 ntfs partitions. I deleted one of the ntfs partitions in windows so now half the drive is free space but disk utility wont touch it without formatting the other partition. is there a 3rd party osx app i can use to turn this into a usable hfs+ drive?
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Jun 30, 2010I've been having difficulties using my USB stick on windows computers, even though I formatted it as FAT (ed. I realized I had to use the Windows partition scheme and have resolved this issue). I've tried lots of things and admit that I got fed up and saw a new option today "format as free space" in disk utility.
Now the drive isn't recognized as being present at all in Disk Utility, /Volumes, and is not showing up with "diskutil list" in Terminal. I mainly want to know if it's possible to get the system to recognize that a drive is plugged in so I can reformat it with ANY filesystem. I'm pretty green to the underworkings of the mac.
MacBook Air :: Free Up Space On Hard Drive?
Feb 11, 2012I'm running out of space on my hard drive. In the past I deleted foreign languages and freed up some space.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Mac Mini :: Free Up Space On Hard Drive?
Mar 9, 2012how do you change the target drive for i photoes library so i could change them to an external drive
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: Out Of Hard Drive Space - How To Free It Up
May 29, 2012I am a long time PC user that just recently got a MacBook Pro. I am out of space on my hard drive and not sure exactly what is eating up all the volume? I went to About This Mac and looked at the Macintosh HD and it says I only have 28GB out of 499GB available. The piece that is using up lion's share is all yellow "Other". How do I find out what is causing this? Is there an easy way to determine what file is chewing up my hard drive?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Applications :: Hard Drive Software To Free Up Space?
Jan 17, 2009What is some good software to free up my hard drive?
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Jun 16, 2009I've tried repairing and verifying disk permissions, verifying the disk, etc, etc, and even defraging the disk. I still can't make a partition in the HD with bootcamp or disk utility.
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Dec 16, 2009My MBP has an 80 gig internal hard drive that has approx. 1 gb free. The only media I have on the computer is approx. 40 gigs of music, all of my photos are on an external drive. How can I free up space without moving my music to an external drive?
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Apr 5, 2010[URL] This is the full screen shot of this person's desktop that I found(Click on the image on the page and it will enlarge), but the applications I am trying to find are the two in the top right corner. The First is the one that shows the Used and Free HD space? and the other is the temperature one its showing 60 degrees and I was wondering what that app is. I really want that HD application.
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Jul 8, 2010I know that back in the day, when I used Windows computers, they always said that you should have at least 10% of your hard drive free, and that less could affect the performance of your computer. Is this true for macs.
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Mar 23, 2012I backed up my hard drive to an external drive. I now want to free up my hard drive storage space. How do I do that. I deleted several GB of iTunes but the free file space did not increase. How can I free up disk space?
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MacBook Pro :: Difference In Free Space On Internal Drive?
May 13, 2012I'm confused - when I look at my Storage info under the "About This Mac" item, my internal drive shows that it has "141.6 GB free out of 499.25 GB" Yet when I look at a Finder window, the drive shows 230.89 GB available. That's an almost 90 GB difference. I'm assuming (until someone tells me otherwise) that the "About This Mac" information is the 'truest' but I, frankly, don't know.
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Mac OS X (10.7.4), 8 GB RAM, 500 GB int, 1 TB ext
MacBook Pro :: Find Out How Much Free Space On Hard Drive?
May 28, 2012I recently upgraded to Lion but still a newbie to Mac OS X. I need to be able to check available space on internal hard drive.
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X :: No Free Space - Erase Free Space Interrupted
Mar 20, 2009Yesterday I apparently interrupted Disk Utility when it was erasing free space, which was far bigger than the used space on my beloved black Macbook. Apparently the free space, because the program was interrupted, is seen as one honking big file.
This morning, the disk utility tells me that I have zero free space. Verify says I do not need repair. I checked because of all my sudden problems (I am unable to save anything to the laptop, unable to cut-and-paste . . . and unable to erase free space again since there officially isn't any, etc.).
Trash is empty.
I tried (based on advice in another thread) to reboot with the installation disk so as to use its disk utility program, but the installation disk menu offers "install" etc. but not (as far as I can tell) just access to its disk utility.
I plugged in my Timemachine external drive [WD MyBook], but the most recent "save" there has the "restore" button greyed out. That's scary.
I'm willing to do a complete re-install if necessary, but I hope that one of you has a simpler solution that will simply get my free space back.
OS X :: External Hard Drive Showing Inaccurate Free Space
Jul 18, 2010I have a 1TB external LaCie hard drive. Presently, it is loaded with about 300GBs of space so I should have around 650GBs left. However, it is only showing about 240GBs left. I think the problem is that I used to use this hard drive for Time Machine backups, I deleted them via the recycle bin. I checked the recycle bin, nothing there. I verified the disk, everything ok, I repaired it as well. I even erased the empty space.
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Mar 20, 2012My startup disc reported it was nearly full. I deleted 170 gbs of i tunes media and documents, and it still reports that my disc is nearly full.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X Mavericks :: Can't Expand Data Partition Even Though Have Free Space On Drive
Jun 28, 2014I recently purchased a 120gb SSD to put in my mac mini. In preparation for this, I created a second partition on my drive as a data drive where I will store things in order to make a time machine backup with the 120gb drive. Everything went as planned, except now, I cannot expand my data partition to use the whole disk. Below is a screen capture of what I'm talking about:Â
To accomplish putting my OS on only 120GB of hard drive, I've made symbolic links for most of the folders in my ~/ folder
This is what the ~/ Folder looks like on my Macintosh HD partition
 This is where these files are actually located
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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Free Up A Lot Of Space On The Startup HD?
Mar 20, 2012how to free up a lot of space on the startup HD?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Free Up Space On Macbook Air?
Apr 9, 2012How to free up space on my macbook air?
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MacBook Air
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Free Space Fragmentation?
May 1, 2012I recently downloaded the iDefrag demo and it reports that my files are 0.7% fragmented but the free space on my disk is 75% fragmented, what does this mean? Should I be concerned and should I defrag the drive? My mac seems to take forever to boot up these days and programs open very slowly. I work with quite large Photoshop files regularly, but my scratch disk is set to a different drive to the system disk.Â
Any recommendations for the best way to learn about troubleshooting the Mac would be appreciated, as I'm keen to avoid any down time due to failures of any kind (I don't mind investing some money for the right training). The area I'm particularly interested in is restoring a system, if there are certain corrupt files, but doing this without affecting all the third party program files etc. I use carbon copy cloner to keep an exact copy of my system disk but am worried that if the system files becomes corrupt, I'm just making a copy of the corruption onto another disk!Â
OS X Mountain Lion :: Need To Free Up Space On MBP
Jun 25, 2014Need to free up about 30G on my mbp (Mountain Lion). iPhoto library is about 48G. iTunes LIbrary is about 34G. I want to backup to a Flash drive (64G) either:
1) some from each or
2) back up one of them.Â
how would I access the backed up data?Â
MacBook :: Hard Drive Full - Deleting Stuff To Free Up Space
Dec 20, 2009Not sure, but for some reason my mac hard drive has got to be 95% full. I know where all the things I put on my laptop are and have added them up and they do not equal up to 132 GB of space. I have deleted the Previous Systems folder which was taking up a lot of space. Where are there more mysterious locations that are taking up space that are not needed and safe to delete?
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