Discrepancy in free disk space between Settings and Disk Utility on Mac

17.09 GB Free Space versus 1 TB Drive Capacity as per your Disk Utilities image

As mentioned earlier and to repeat myself

Disk Utilities is far more accurate and when IT reports 17.09 GB of 1 TB

In the 20 Years, 1 month and xx number of days using Apple Computers

Disk Utilities does not misrepresent disk space, Used or Free

Perhaps reading from this link may or may on shed light on this issue

Purgeable Space 

From another posting I often use in such situations

From another contributor @etresoft regarding Free Space and Available Space 

Free vs available disk space huge differe… - Apple Community

Quote >>  “ The "available" storage is the amount of used storage that the operating system could automatically delete if it felt that it was really necessary. The "free" storage is the amount that you can actually use for something.

There are system processes that run in the background and automatically delete some of the "available" storage and convert it to "free". If you completely run out of storage, then those system processes will try a little harder. When you "delete" files you are just hinting to the operating system that you don't need those files anymore. The operating system will eventually remove them, but on its own schedule.

Certain tools will allow you to force the issue and manually clean up some of this storage and manually delete local snapshots. But that is only temporary. "  << End Quote 

Is that a Fusion Drive? One complication is that you're using the default view in Disk Utility. The default conveniently shows you something that isn't real, as most Apple storage tools do. Go to the View menu and select "Show All Devices".

My guess is that the container created to host the two parts of your Fusion Drive actually takes up all of the space of the top-most container.

But regardless of what view setting you have, the important one is the data volume. Is yours disabled? I'm not familiar with Fusion drives. Plus, the name of the your disk suggests that you've re-created it at least one. Normally it's "Macintosh HD".

coder4life wrote:

My free disk space is different on the Settings View and the Disk Utility View. Can you help?

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/fb4af219-d476-4f07-824a-ad62509eef8a

[Edited by Moderator]

Yes we can help

Disk Utilities is much more Accurate

The other methods are not - full stop