When I go to my Storage tab, it says that I have about 245 GB available of 245 GB:
However using the Get Info on my Macintosh HD, it actually says that it's used about 155 GB:
Mac Info
I've tried First Aid in Recovery Mode; didn't work.
Is this a minor glitch or something to be concerned about?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.2
I've tried both methods in isolation 3 - 4 times; after restarting though, it still displays the incorrect storage size. Since all of my data is synced to the cloud, I could always do a clean reinstall of Mac OS; however, since this seems just like a cosmetic issue, I'll let it be.
Thanks for your help my ginger.
I've tried both methods in isolation 3 - 4 times; after restarting though, it still displays the incorrect storage size. Since all of my data is synced to the cloud, I could always do a clean reinstall of Mac OS; however, since this seems just like a cosmetic issue, I'll let it be.
Thanks for your help my ginger.
Sometimes that happens. Try re-indexing spotlight.Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support Ifnthat doesn't work you can do it in terminal as well.https://www.stellarinfo.com/article/rebuild-spotlight-search-index-on-mac.php
I tried to re-index via System Preferences - didn't work
and Terminal - ran into errors, don't really want to disable System Integrity Protection
Is there any other safe methods? If not I can live with it as long as this is harmless
Have you restarted your computer since reindexing? You could try going to spotlight and starting another re-index. If you do, do not run the terminal command. You can do one or the other, but not both. If spotlight is re-indexing. Clicking on spotlight in the top right ,should show a progress bar in spotlight.https://www.maketecheasier.com/fix-wrong-hard-drive-data-usage-calculation-osx/ Usually the problem is incorrect reading of space in other. Which show a full drive when it's not. Your seems to not be calculating the space used. If at first you don't succeed, try again. Right.
Try this. Right click on your Hard Drive and choose Get Info. It should open on the left side of your screen. May take a minute to calculate. Will show, capacity, available and used. This should be more accurate. Somehow spotlight is not indexing as it should. Now you have to remember that when spotlight does index. It can, depending on how much or how big your drive is, take awhile.
Terminal is saying that spotlight is indexing. Indexing can take a while depending on how many files you have. Let it index and check tomorrow. This is done in the background , you will not see it .
Storage size is still wrong
Seemed to have resolved itself now.
Didn't reindex the spotlight since March 1st; maybe it just needed a few restarts instead of just one?
System Storage Info Wrong
