Home folder sizeis wrong, abnormal high

Hallo BDAqua, many thanks for your idea. Indeed, obviously I should have tried that before posting the question to the forum. So, in the meantime I did, but it has not cured the problem.

Any other idea?

Hallo Eric Root, also many thanks for your suggestion. I did as you said, and unfortunately it has not cured the problem.

Now the strange behavior is that:

The size of the disk is mentioned as 500Gb, and that is correct;

The size of the Users folder is mentioned as 4,67Gb, that's almost 10 times the size of the disk!

The size of the Home folder is also mentioned as 4,67 Gb, like the Users folder, although the contained folders and files barely uses 288Gb. In fact the Disc repair utility ends the repair with giving the right figures: Capacity: 466Gb, Used: 288Gb, Free: 213Gb.

My concern is that backup program asks for a backup drive of at least 4,67Tb!

Many thanks in advance for your suggestions!

@Eric Root: Thanks for your suggestion, and for your fast answer! Thanks also for having understood that I made mistakes in my previous text, as 4,67Gb should have been 4,67Tb.

But rebooting in safe mode didn't cure the problem. I also tried to repair the disk after reboot, also without results.

Any other idea?

Hello everybody, thanks for your help. Unfortunately, The issue remains.

I used Option+Command+i for the Home folder as recommended by Viking OSX, but the figures are the same as when I use Command+I: 4,68Tb.

I also downloaded OmniDiskSweeper and examioned the size calculations from OmniDiskSweeper: Users: 280Gb and Home: 280Gb. These are the right figures.

But still, the info window in the Finder shows: Disc 499Gb, Users 4,68Tb, Home 4,68Tb. (In other words, the Users folder and the Home folder are almost ten times as big as the disk...)

If somebody got an idea...

I think you are right. I will erase the disk and reinstall the OS. I have no full backup since the time the problem occurred, but I simply copied the actual folders to a remote disk from where I can recover them.

Thank you very much for your help and patience!

Hallo BDAqua,

I just did as you said: I created a new user, logged out and restarted as the new user. The figures remain the same: The Users folder is 4,68Tb big. The disk size is correct, 499Gb.

Back into a session of the old user, things also remain the same: User folder4,68Tb, Home folder 4,68Tb, Disk size 499Gb....