I have been having problems with my Mac. It is saying, that of a 2tb drive, I have like 50 gigs free. I burned like 45 gigs on a blu-ray today and it is still showing that low amount. Now, I added everything up.
Gigs -- 41.1
MBs -- 16,352.3 -- 17
KBs -- 5,920 -- 6
That is every application that is shows. So I ask you, why is it showing me that i have over 1tb of applications. It also shows I have over 1tb of iCloud.
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Mac Pro, macOS 12.6
Apple's suggestion to reset the computer indicates that there may be some corruption of the operating system currently in place. It happens. And it can often be incredibly hard to pin point the exact cause, if not impossible. You could chase your tail for days trying to find it. So it's not a question of covering anything up, it's just taking one step toward eliminating the problem.
❗️Before you restore that Mac, do make sure that you have a current Time Machine backup of your user files. Just in case.
Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support
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I would agree with that if it was not the first thing they told me to do. haha I mean that was it. No questions, no tips, nothing to try.
It was the first thing they told you to do because it's probably likely to fix the problem.
If you don't wish to go so far as resetting the computer, you might simply reinstall macOS as a first step. This process is non-destructive to your user files. It simply installs a fresh copy of the OS on the boot drive, overwriting any system files that may have become corrupted and causing your issue. You won't have to erase format anything, just reinstall the OS.
How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support
FYI, 41 GB of free space on a 2TB drive is well below the threshold for healthy working space for the OS. I do understand that your free drive space took a hard hit the past month. Ideally, you'll want to keep about 10%-15% of the drive's total capacity free for the OS to use at any given time. That's 200-300 GB on that drive. Having too little free space available on the startup drive can eventually prevent the Mac from starting up.
I am turning off iCloud but making a copy of everything. Which is stupid since I have time machine. But I will just do it. See what happens. Then I will burn important stuff to blu-ray and or put on external drive. Take it from iCloud and then turn it back on.
Good luck. 🍀
Also, you might explore the possibility that there are Time Machine snapshots taking up a large chunk of space.
About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support
It is really odd. It showed that i had like 200 gigs free a month or so ago. I do not download much. If I get a movie or something, I burn it to a disk. Then I go on my Mac one day and it will not start. It just sets loading. I leave and come back to see it is on. But nothing would work. I burn things. Which was odd because it would not let me at first. It showed I had 80 some gigs free. I looked a week later and it showed 18. I could not understand. I have like 92 or 96 gigs of memory and a 2tb drive. I don't know how it is so full. Last night, I went through the list of apps and wrote down the numbers. as you can see above. But there is no way that the amount of space I am using is what my Mac is saying. When I got this Mac, I backed up my old one and restored in onto this one. The space has never been a problem until a couple weeks ago. Apple told me to reset it to factory settings. I mean, I told them I wanted to know the problem. Not just cover it up.
As I noted above, while it does't break down the amount of space used by individual apps, only Disk Utility will provide an accurate reading of the space used. And also as noted, please specifically state what your problems are and what is happening so that we have some information to review an then respond to.
I would agree with that if it was not the first thing they told me to do. haha I mean that was it. No questions, no tips, nothing to try.
I am turning off iCloud but making a copy of everything. Which is stupid since I have time machine. But I will just do it. See what happens. Then I will burn important stuff to blu-ray and or put on external drive. Take it from iCloud and then turn it back on.
What problem(s) are you experiencing??
Remember, iCloud only mirrors your Mac. To reliably see what available storage your Mac has, you need to use Disk Utility to see what is being used. As said, what specifically is your issue?
Issues with my Mac Pro hard drive
