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Q: Lots of "other" data on mac

Product: Macbook Pro Retina. Purchased July 2014.

500gb internal drive

Memory: 16gb 1600 MHz DDR3

Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7

OS X 10.9.5

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According to my math (including some files not shown here) I am using approx. 231gb of space, but the mac claims that I only have 51.44gb of free space remaining. This has been dogging me for months and I would like to free space up.
I am a big user of Logic Pro X, Final Cut Pro X, and iZotope RX Advanced Audio Editor (all very storage-hungry programs).

I cannot see any visible files that can account for approx. 217gb of unusable space.


What function can I perform to free up this space without deleting anything else on the Mac?

 

Would restoring from a Time Capsule Backup following a format of the Startup Disk fix this?

 

Thank you.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Storage issue

Posted on Aug 31, 2016 4:45 PM

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