Help! SSD Disk memory aren't shown (just part of memory)

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Help! SSD Disk memory aren't shown (just part of memory)

I have a 256gb SSD but only 97 are in use. The memory is filling up very quickly. What could be the problem and how can I solve it? Thank you!

MacBook Pro 15″

Posted on Feb 1, 2024 1:21 AM

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Answer 1

Ronasara

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Feb 1, 2024 10:23 AM in response to nixyevo

To help you, I will offer some information. What you are referring to is storage, not memory. Memory is what RAM provided and is completely different. To get the only accurate display of used/available storage you should only use Disk Utility to see what is used. You say disk storage is being filled up very quickly. How much and over what period of time? Also, what, if anything, have you installed during that time?

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nixyevo Author

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Feb 2, 2024 12:42 AM in response to Ronasara

Thank you for your response!

Yes, that's right, the storage, not memory. It's a consequence of my poor English)

The screen I sent it is Disk Utility. You can see that on the right side of the disk shows 251gb, but on the bottom the red scale shows only 97,15gb. I can't figure out where the other 153,85 are. I mean, this memory is not full, it's not there at all.

And the fact that the memory is filling up fast is not a consequence of an error or failure, it just clogs up fast because I have to install some applications and then uninstall them to install others.

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HWTech

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Feb 2, 2024 10:11 PM in response to nixyevo

Launch the Terminal app and issue the following command so we can get a better look at the drive layout:

diskutil  list  internal

I suspect you may have partitioned this SSD at one point in order to use Windows or Linux, then later deleted the partition, but the space used by that other partition was never merged back into the main macOS partition/Container.

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HWTech

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Feb 3, 2024 6:12 PM in response to nixyevo

I haven't used Windows Bootcamp in a really long time. However, from reading this forum it seems you need to use Bootcamp Assistant to remove Windows & its partitions, but I don't think it is possible now since those partitions seem to have been deleted except for on 16.8MB Microsoft partition. I doubt Disk Utility can re-merge them since they may be located both before & after the macOS partition.

Usually when I've seen people improperly remove Windows on a Mac, they usually must perform a clean install of macOS by first erasing the whole physical drive followed by reinstalling macOS & restoring from a backup.

Is this still your brother's computer or is it now yours?

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