Hi, i was just wanting to delete some items on my computer like games pictures and files that i dont need i hade a bout 40G on my laptop left and was hoping to get more by deleting some things but when i deleted them instead of gaing GB i lost like 20GB. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO PLEASE HELP
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 128G, 4g ram, 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5
Did you empty the Trash? How are you reading the amount of space?
Oh yea i already deleted the items i just did the sentence wrong yea i deleted the trash but nothings happened i lost 20 gb instead of gaining gb
Select the icon of your startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you renamed it) in the sidebar of a Finder window, and open the Info window. How much space is Available?
Where do i find MACINTOSH HD
YEA IT SAYS I GOT 54.89GB AVAILABLE???? BUT WHEN I GO ABOUT THIS MAC THEN STORAGE It SAYS 21GS LEFT???
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.
get this programs called Grand perspective (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/). open it and have it scan your Macintosh HD folder (dont scan anything else) and find large, unused "blocks". when you have them click 'reveal' and you can delete them from there. Davis emptying the trash doesnt remove the program/file completely, it just deletes the main folder leaving everything else to be scattered about. and if you want to read the ammount of space stored go to that little apple in top left corner and click 'about this mac-more info-disc space' to see how mutch you have left. I hope this helps, although your best bet would be to buy anything but a Mac and RIGHTCLICK on the program/file and click uninstall which removes them for good...anything else buy a PC.. hope this helped 😀
DELETED ITEMS STILL TAKING SPACE???
