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My MacBook Pro does not show accurate SSD memory usage.

Hello, thank you for reading me.


My MacBook Pro does not show accurate SSD memory usage. I should have 100GB free more than what it shows. Any idea? thank you.


Posted on Aug 13, 2020 6:18 AM

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Posted on Aug 13, 2020 9:33 AM

hello again, this is what I've done in case it can be helpful to the community.


  1. I download a program form Mac App Store, and I've discovered the problem. I had 118,68 GB in pCloud Cache.
  2. After deleting those GB, I have back 130,47 GB free in my MacBook Pro.


Thank you.


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Aug 13, 2020 7:21 AM in response to lea-law

regardless of exactly how accurate/inaccurate that display is, you need to find an additional way to store some of your 'stuff". You just have too much for the size drive you have now.


An external drive could be used to store your older Photos, or your entire Photo Library, for example.


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A very small contributing issue is that this data comes from Spotlight Indexing, which is really good at adding the sizes of new files, but not so good at removing old ones. But even if you compute a new spotlight index, it does not solve the fundamental problem that you have too much stuff for the size of your drive.


How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support


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Aug 13, 2020 7:44 AM in response to lea-law

I had 70 until last night, and now only 13,19GB.

Probably you should have led with that...


Regardless, go to Finder, select your internal drive (Macintosh HD), then File menu > Get Info. If it shows that you have 13.19 GB available, then that's correct. The problem is not inaccurate display of available space, it's something else. A download. A wireless iPhone backup. Bottom line, as Grant Bennet-Alder states, you need have too much stuff and need to remove some.



My MacBook Pro does not show accurate SSD memory usage.

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