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My 2022macbook hard drive shows to be nearly full with ghost files?.

Everytime I try moving anything to external drives I get message that the disk is full and the tASK CAN’T BE COMPLETED. In the disk utility the hard drive shows it is almost full with Idrive. But when I disconnected idrive it now shows that it has 496 GB (out of 500 available or so) of documents. I can’t move anything and really don’t think I have that much in documents…

Posted on Aug 3, 2023 3:08 PM

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Posted on Aug 4, 2023 2:42 AM

You might not, but you have to examine the files by name, type, size and etc to determine what exactly is consuming the space. It doesn't really matter at this point if they are your"ghost" files or data you created, something has filled your drive.


I suggest an app such a the free version of Daisy Disk.

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Aug 4, 2023 2:42 AM in response to annepal08

You might not, but you have to examine the files by name, type, size and etc to determine what exactly is consuming the space. It doesn't really matter at this point if they are your"ghost" files or data you created, something has filled your drive.


I suggest an app such a the free version of Daisy Disk.

My 2022macbook hard drive shows to be nearly full with ghost files?.

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