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Hi everyone,
My 2012 MacBook Pro has a 500GB HDD.
I'm having an issue with storage. This morning I had 150.49GB free (according About this Mac>More info...>Storage). Then I deleted 8GB of Video's from my computer. And now it's saying I have 149.89GB free. I don't understand what's going on?
Can anyone shed light on what's going on? I just can't understand it. I've been noticing this for a while.
If you need more info, let me know.
Thank you for all your help!
- J
Did you delete the items in the Trash? If you didn't then that explains why you weren't able to gain the 8gb.
Thx for replying! Yep trash is totally empty. Thank you.
These two extracts from the Pondini web site might help explain your query:
http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
Ciao.
If the trash is already empty and did not recover the 8gb of space, I'd recommend you download CCleaner from the AppStore, and run the app.
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.
Problem SOLVED!
After some research, it appears that because I hadn't completed a time machine backup in over 2 months, local disk snapshots were taking the space. Accounted for over 50GB!
It can be turned off or simply do a time machine back up...
Thanks to everyone!
MacBook Pro storage issue?
