Storage space Major issue! - MacBook Pro 15" Retina Mid-2012

If your hard drive is over 85% full, frequently the swap file creation gets out of whack. Also remove any system utilities that weren't installed by Apple.

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

Neither of these programs would cause the behavior you are seeing.

Boot off a larger external hard drive and move over files until your internal is not so full.

Have you emptied the trash?

You can turn off the local snapshots and all of them will be removed which will free up quit a bit of space.

The terminal command for that is.

sudo tmutil disablelocal

To turn it back on just replace disable with enable.

But IMHO these loacal snapshots are just a waste of drive space.

after you deleted the items you mentioned did you then empty the trash on the dock to remove the items from the HD? if not they are still stored there.

also if you see there is a discrepancy in the amount of disk space that is available i would reindex the HD. you can use the spotlight to do this and the following article tells how to do this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2409

It's not clear whether you're listening. If you're not listening, you may be about to do something destructive for no reason at all. Do you back up with Time Machine?

Purchase an external hard drive larger than your internal from http://www.macsales.com

Install an operating system on it known to work with your machine.

Boot with the Option key and select the external hard drive to startup.

When entering your password in terminal it is not echoed on the screen, no characters will appear on the screen (in the terminal windows).

Once you enter that command and type in your password reboot the system and check drive space.

nathanribstick wrote:

Yes, the trash is empty, however when I type that command in terminal and it prompts me for my password, I am suddenly unable to type anything!