Shows I have 669Gigs available after deleting lots of items. But is also shows used 982 Gigs on a 1TB drive.
When I go to import a video into FCPX is says I only have 33Gigs of space!!! How is this and how can I fix it, it won't let me import the video as its 188 Gigs and I need to have it finished in editing by tomorrow evening.
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
In principle these should go away automatically if you let Time Machine do its thing and update your backup.
In case it doesn't, you can thin those snapshots and recover some of that space.
In Terminal, paste the following:
sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 50000000000 4
You will be asked for your password. Type it blindly (there is no feedback, not even *** or ••• as you type!) and press enter.
The big number above is the number of bytes you try to reclaim.
In principle these should go away automatically if you let Time Machine do its thing and update your backup.
In case it doesn't, you can thin those snapshots and recover some of that space.
In Terminal, paste the following:
sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 50000000000 4
You will be asked for your password. Type it blindly (there is no feedback, not even *** or ••• as you type!) and press enter.
The big number above is the number of bytes you try to reclaim.
Try restarting your mac in Safe Mode, then restarting again normally.
If that does not work, open Terminal, paste the following line and tell us what output you get:
tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
In addition you can use the built-in OS Manage Storage.
Click the Apple icon in the top left corner, then About this Mac, Storage Tab.
Click Mange and review and delete unnecessary files:
Al
Last login: Wed Sep 2 14:15:21 on console
renebruun@Renes-iMac ~ % tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Snapshots for disk /:
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-08-30-191150.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-01-202047.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-01-212021.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-01-222415.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-01-232429.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-02-091257.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-02-100830.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-02-111038.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-02-121653.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-02-124838.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-02-133140.local
renebruun@Renes-iMac ~ %
Give it a good old PRAM and see what happens.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204063
Alternatively i would do quick macOS reinstall without wiping your drive just replacing system files.
Snapshots strike again.
Thanks, all sorted now, appreciate your help Guru Luis. :)
Shows I have space there, but when I try to open my FCPX and import a 190.xx gig video file is says only 33 gigs of space left.
HELP NEEDED!!! Storage Anomally
