how do I find out how much storage space I have left on my macbook? can't find info in my "About this mac"
I've been trying to find out how much storage space I have left on my old macbook but I can't find it in "about this mac". Anybody...?
MacBook
Three capacity values appear there, Capacity is the full or total of the hard drive.
The Available number is a estimation of unused capacity (subject to temp file
swap, read-writes of virtual memory to hard drive, or application temp files) and
Used amount is hard drive used by the system, applications & associated files.
{image ^ from 'Get Info' of hard drive where OS X resides, above}
{image ^ from Disk Utility (use GO in finder menu, see Utilities folder) open D.U click on HDD
Hardware name, in text; this is not the same name of the Macintosh HD boot volume, above}
{image ^ from within Disk Utility, clicking on Macintosh HD, (text to select) to see
in bottom page, partition where the OS X is installed & your applications, etc exist}
This would vary if the main hard disk drive has more than one partition, in which
case those would appear as mount-points in the directory of the physical drive if
they contain a bootable system; some do not appear-- or are Invisible here.
The computer above info is from, has two internal 1-TB HDD & only one OS X.
Second drive is empty except for the formatting; ready for another system, or
perhaps extra storage. The formatting of the hard drive uses part of the drive
capacity, so info about the 'brand name' drive, shows higher number than the
second image where the content available (capacity) is less. This is natural.
Not sure if this helps.
Also, the discussion is about two years old...
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
