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Feb 21, 2015 10:07 AM in response to Murphy921by brenden dv,Hi Murphy921,
I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on exactly what you are describing, and/or where you are seeing these discrepencies. There are multiple things that can affect how availble and used storage are reported. You may find the information outlined in the following articles helpful:
How OS X and iOS report storage capacity - Apple Support
OS X: What is "other" space in About This Mac? - Apple Support
OS X Yosemite: Increase disk space
Regards,
- Brenden
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Feb 25, 2015 7:00 PM in response to brenden dvby Murphy921,When I check my hard drive it says there's 126 gigs of used space. However, when I go through the files there's only 121.5 gigs of used space, so there's roughly four gigs or so of unaccounted space that I can't figure out where it is.
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Feb 25, 2015 7:55 PM in response to Murphy921by my ginger,Hi. Are you using disk utilities to see hard drive space? In disk utilities you will have two icons only the main drive ,the other the drive(your name). On mine the first drive is 250gb and the other my name is 249gb.
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Feb 25, 2015 8:07 PM in response to my gingerby Murphy921,I have not been using disk utilities to see hard drive space. I've been using OmniDiskSweeper that lists how the files are divided up among my hard drive.
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Feb 25, 2015 10:30 PM in response to Murphy921by my ginger,Hi. I have never used OmniDiskSweeper. So I don't no how it reads disks. If it reads the entire disk then it's going to pick up the portion of the disk that has The partitioning map -the GUID table- the built in S.M.A.R.T read status. And what apple installs for journaling, and factory bad block counts.
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Mar 9, 2015 9:31 PM in response to my gingerby Murphy921,To my knowledge, it's reading the whole disk. However, is it possible that a movie could be stored on it twice and not even know it?
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Mar 10, 2015 11:19 AM in response to Murphy921by my ginger,If there are duplicates, you can open Itunes and using the menu bar at the top under view. There is show duplicate items. Using the upper left tab to get to Music or movies and then using view, show duplicate items . You can see and delete any you find. After you delete them you will have to also empty the trash.
