Hi,
I have MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) with MacOS Catalina. Space is 121GB, when I check the storage it shows only 2.3GB is available from 121GB. However, in the left side I see the total space used is approx. 34GB. How is it possible that only 2.3GB is available when the space utilized is only 34GB?
can someone please help me resolve this issue? Thank you.
Regards
Santosh
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
Welcome, Santoshkm, to Apple Support Communities!
Yes. It’s that “Other Volumes in Container” that is making it so you have so little space Available, even though you have so little Used within the accessible part of the drive.
Run Disk Utility (Launchpad -> Other -> Disk Utility), and set your View to “Show All Devices”, and show (or tell) us what the various Internal Volumes are.
(There are Terminal commands to show the same, all in textural form.)
Most likely, when your friend «cleared the disk and reboot it», something wasn’t done quite right, especially on the reinstall.
Welcome, Santoshkm, to Apple Support Communities!
Yes. It’s that “Other Volumes in Container” that is making it so you have so little space Available, even though you have so little Used within the accessible part of the drive.
Run Disk Utility (Launchpad -> Other -> Disk Utility), and set your View to “Show All Devices”, and show (or tell) us what the various Internal Volumes are.
(There are Terminal commands to show the same, all in textural form.)
Most likely, when your friend «cleared the disk and reboot it», something wasn’t done quite right, especially on the reinstall.
Its resolved, there was addidional APFS volume was created hence this problem was there. I have deleted it and got back 86 GB data.
Here is the screenshot , not the selected one, below it another partition was done and there was no data but it was helding memory. I don't how and why, since there was no data in it and there was an option to delet the Macintosh data, that resolved the problem.
Do you have more than one user account on this Mac? These categories only represent storage values for the person that is currently logged in.
Ref: See used and available storage space on your Mac - Apple Support
See if the following support article can help: How to free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support
Here is the screenshot , not the selected one, below it another partition was done and there was no data but it was helding memory. I don't how and why, since there was no data in it and there was an option to delet the Macintosh data, that resolved the problem.
This Mac belongs to my friend but before he gave it to me he cleared the disk and reboot it. However, I see in the system information -storage category, it shows 84.36GB as other volum in container. I don't know where to locate it and check the content. Can you pl help me out, how to get rid of it?
No, this is not helpful. I have already folllowed the steps mentioned in that article.
At the moment, I am the only user to it.
Glad to hear, Santoshkm, that you found and solved the problem!
How did you manage to delete this? When I try to show the folder/drive it doesn't show up in the list.
right Click on the folder you want to delete, if there is a option to delete than you can do else no.
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