My MacBook has 2 GB of space left, so I moved over 60 GB worth of movies from iMovie HD (including the application itself) to a hard drive and deleted it all off my MacBook. I then emptied the trash and went to check the space left now and it STILL SAY 2GB LEFT!! Can anybody tell me why I'm not freeing up any space on my hard drive? What gives?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Okay, I think I was looking in the wrong place... my bad 😮
Try restarting the computer, and if it still isn't showing the additional space try:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
And, if this doesn't do it then you need to backup the drive, boot from your Leopard DVD, open Disk Utility on the DVD and erase your hard drive then reinstall Leopard.
Why can't I free up space on my MacBook hard drive?
