My hard-drive is filled with invisible space...

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My hard-drive is filled with invisible space...

I recently deleted my iTunes library to reinstall a fresh copy from another Mac but when I went to copy it...it said that there wasn't enough room. When I checked my hard-drive it said there was over 100GB free but from further inpsection there is only 30GB free...I pressume this invisible space is from my old iTunes...how do I find it and delete it...no program I have tried says there is anything on there and yet my OS says there is

MacBook (13-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Posted on May 17, 2013 1:06 AM

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Answer 1

May 17, 2013 8:59 AM in response to azza50

You might want to check out OnyX (http://www.titanium.free.fr/downloadonyx.php). One of the many things it can do is delete previous iTunes Libraries (Cleaning tab, Misc.).

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Linc Davis

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May 17, 2013 2:22 PM in response to azza50

“You may notice a difference in available space statistics between Disk Utility, Finder, and Get Info inspectors. This is expected and can be safely ignored. The Finder displays the available space on the disk without accounting for the local snapshots, because local snapshots will surrender their disk space if needed."

About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs

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