I do not know why but my 2 TB disk is full. and I have less than 500G of anything on it. I started trying to remove movies etc none of which deleted with the manage tool. then I realized that the system itself is 2.05 TB on disk! That has to be wrong and Ive no idea how to fix it. ideas?
iMac 27" 5K, macOS 10.14
Ended up calling support. The solution was to go to
Rebuild the Spotlight index on the Mac
RESTART your mac. Don't use spotlight to re-index your mac. Its buggy and makes the computer think that items use twice as much as they really do.
Ended up calling support. The solution was to go to
Rebuild the Spotlight index on the Mac
RESTART your mac. Don't use spotlight to re-index your mac. Its buggy and makes the computer think that items use twice as much as they really do.
with the manage tool.
What manage tool?
Where did you see the 2t size?
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Be careful when deleting files. A lot of people have trashed their
system when deleting things.
Place things in trash. Reboot & run your applications. Empty
trash.
Go after large files that you have created & know what they
are. Do not delete small files that are in a folder you do not
know what the folder is for. Anything that is less than a megabyte
is a small file these days.
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Empty the trash. Space isn't reclaimed until you empty the
trash in three places!
The trash can...
-- in the dock
-- for iPhoto
-- with Mail
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Run
OmniDiskSweeper
"The simple, fast way to save disk space"
OmniDiskSweeper is now free!
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/download/
In the top left hand corner, click on the Apple logo.
Select "about this Mac."
Click on the "storage" tab.
Click on "manage."
This will show you where the large files are located on your Mac.
Have you backed up multiple large capacity iPads and iPhones on your Mac using iTunes? If you back up iPads and iTunes that have lots of long videos, this will use up space on your drive. These backups will be listed in the "iOS files" section. It will show you the size of each backup.
You can also see the backups (but not their sizes) in iTunes.
Open iTunes.
Click on the iTunes menu then select preferences. Click on the "devices" tab. This will display all of the devices that you have backed up on your Mac. You can delete the backups here if they are no longer needed.
Howard
In the section where you can view the size of various categories of files on your Mac, in the "iOS files" section, you will also see iOS updates that were downloaded to update the iOS of your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
Howard
my mac system has ballooned to 2.05 TB on disk! on a 2T disk. HELP
