Mac says 1TB HD has only 135GB free space, but adding up all files manually only <200GB should be used

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Mac says 1TB HD has only 135GB free space, but adding up all files manually only <200GB should be used

System: Mac OS X 10.6.8, 3.6GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM

1TB hard disk partitioned with Bootcamp, 152GB for windows with 116GB free and 848GB for Mac system. For the Macintosh HD the finder using get info (or disk utility or disk inspector) reports that only 135GB are free out of 848GB. This is simply not possible. Adding up all the used space manually I get at best up to 200GB. There are no movies or any other large files stored on the HD. Music and photos make up about 60GB and those are the large folders. What is going on here? Any utility I can run to find those huge files if they indeed exist?

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Posted on Oct 24, 2011 6:52 PM

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cem_sg

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Oct 24, 2011 6:59 PM in response to madull

Check this http://www.derlien.com/ , it's free

You will be surprised to find huge files/folders in system folders 😉

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madull Author

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Oct 24, 2011 7:30 PM in response to cem_sg

I used DiskSweeper and DiskInspector and both report that over 700GB are used, but can't find any big files. Have a look at the screen shot below. I actually only use 107GB, not over 700GB

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