Hi
The other day I deleted over 50 GB of files from Mac but no space was freed from my Mac.
This really weird and scary, I really need the space and I am afraid that something is wrong with my harddrive.
MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11
The information displayed by the macOS Storage Management section is known to be incorrect. Use "Get Info" on the drive in the Finder to see if the free space shows up correctly.
If the Finder doesn't show the free space, then you likely have a Time Machine (or other) backup pending or some APFS system snapshots which are still holding the "deleted" data. If you haven't backed up in a while, then connect your backup drive and let the backup complete after which you should see the free space available.
If you don't have a pending backup, then you can check for any APFS system snapshots that you can thin out or delete:
The information displayed by the macOS Storage Management section is known to be incorrect. Use "Get Info" on the drive in the Finder to see if the free space shows up correctly.
If the Finder doesn't show the free space, then you likely have a Time Machine (or other) backup pending or some APFS system snapshots which are still holding the "deleted" data. If you haven't backed up in a while, then connect your backup drive and let the backup complete after which you should see the free space available.
If you don't have a pending backup, then you can check for any APFS system snapshots that you can thin out or delete:
Thank you for replying.
I have used all the ways you can view your harddisc space and it's still like the files are in the harddrive, but when I look at the folder they used to be in, the file space is gone. But when I look at at the lagering space of the whole Mac(where you get different categories, it's like the files was never on the Mac)
I don't have a time machine or do back-ups on harddrives, but I am running a program called Back-Blaze, that uploade your files to a cloud as a back-up. Actually it was because of Back-Blaze that I deleted the files, because I got a note from the program saying that there was not very much space on my Mac and therefor it could not backup some files, so maybe Back-Blaze plays a part in this?
Today I deleted 30 GB of video material to get more space, and my harddrive reacted normally to this and the 30 GB file space was removed from my harddrive, but the over 50 GB space from the other day did still not show up.
I will try and write to Back-Blaze and hear if they have experienced this before and learn about APFS and try that.
I really hope I can get to the bottom of this
Check out the link in my previous post for listing & thinning/deleting APFS snapshots. macOS will make APFS snapshots when updating macOS or possibly when apps are installed.
Use OmniDiskSweeper to check where the largest files/folders are located. I'm not entirely sure how APFS handles file copies, but if you made a copy of those large files, then you may need to delete the other copy as well since in reality there is only one copy on the drive.
Try rebooting the computer as well. It is amazing what a reboot can do sometimes.
Deleted over 50 Gb from Trash bin but did not get any GB free from my harddrive
