Difference between Available and Used in Info for MacIntosh HD and Space Free and Space Utilised under Activity Monitor, Disk Usage?

Mende

I looked and it shows "Macintosh HD 25.96GB, capacity 120.47. The only other thing it shows is a few megabytes of Skype. It does show theTime Machine when I plug in, but not when it is not plugged in.

So unless you have another suggestion, I'll try the Spotlight recalibration approach.

Thanks.

Mendes

Sorry, but I missed the "storage" tab at the top when I first did it. I've gone in as you recommended, and it shows 32.5GB of backups. So you were absolutely right. That's the problem.

Now how do I turn off and turn on Time Machine to erase these GBs? When I click the Time Machine icon, there is just the full screen of pages of backups receding into the background, but no bar at the top with the various icons which would allow me to quit the application.

Please advise.

Mendes

I Googled how to turn off Time Machine via Icon, System Preferences, Time Machine, and the extra GB disappeared.

You're a genius.

Thanks.

Regards

George

Iheartapple1970

Just to let you I tried the reindexing before the Mendes advice and it had no effect. Of course, I may have done it wrong. It was the HD icon from the desktop which I dragged into the Privacy window of Spotlight (and then did the +, OK, - and close Spotlight). Should I have dragged in something else? Or opened up the HD and dragged in all the contents?

Also, there is a small section in my HD which is for my wife's account which has a separate user name and password, although it has no data in it and I set it up while under my administrator account original, so my MacAir may think I still "own" it; in any case, I did not get any sort of error message saying I did not have ownership of the entire HD.