About This Mac is showing wrong Storage information

Hi Guy, hoping you found a solution as it seems I am having the exact same problem. All disc space is now shown in 'other'. Any advice?

my god thnx alot bud, i teared up cuz of happiness dude thnx

helped but all becomes others help pls

1. Open the Spotlight system preferences.
2. Go to the Privacy tab.
3. Drag your hard drive to the list to add it.
4. Select your drive, and then click the minus button to remove it.
   That fixed it for me on my 2nd try. Hope this helps you.
   

Honestly doubt they are, and even if they are/have its been well over a year since this bug started popping up. Why haven't they done anything to fix it..?

I have the latest Macbook Pro, purchased in 2015. I think it's identical to yours. I've had this problem in the past, re-indexing has helped once, but now re-indexing will add around 5gb to my available storage, instead of the 100 or so it says I'm using. I've been through every single file possible, and collected info regarding usage on almost every single folder, however the information I obtain does not equate to what's being displayed in "About This Mac". This issue is just ridiculous, and needs to be fixed. We, as customers, shouldn't be needing to constantly re-index our computers just to see storage information; I have better things to do, being a student with barely any time.

Just used OmniDiskSweeper; In total it says I use 141 gb +. Whereas "About This Mac" claims I'm using 229 gb, 129.67gb of that being marked as "Other". As stated previously on comments (on this thread), I've manually sweeped through a majority, if not all of my files and none of the values I calculate add up to "20.04 GB free of 249.79" (shown in picture above). I have re-indexed on multiple occasions in the past year, all with no success, partially excluding an attempt made (which didn't even work). I run the latest version of OSX, I have no applications that could be possibly hindering my storage calculations (is that even possible), and I have the latest Macbook Pro (13 inch, 250GB, 2.7GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB memory). Please someone help me.

W0W wrote:

Just used OmniDiskSweeper; In total it says I use 141 gb +. Whereas "About This Mac" claims I'm using 229 gb, 129.67gb of that being marked as "Other".

OmniDiskSweeper shows the drive is 201.9GB and Disk Utility shows it as 249.78 so there’s 48GB missing using OmniDiskSweeper.

Oh yeah, thanks for pointing that out.

and... now (tried the suggestion) it reads that I gained 2.~ GB (went from 17.xx free, to 19.xx free) and EVERYTHING list as other....

Uploaded 20 gigs of pictures to Flickr, uploading more, deleted the parent files after the upload, have deleted every document on this thing, except for 40-50 one page PDF's.

and Pics, (before it went all yellow) showed about 40-50 gig....

Help!!!! mid 2010 MBPro, running El Capitan, stock specs, 4g ram, 250g HD.

Thanks man! It worked for me.

Spotlight re-indexing never helped me much either; if Spotlight is a cause for this problem, it's clearly not the only cause. The only fix that ever works for me on any repeatable basis is turning off local backups in Time Machine (if the settings say they're off, then I turn them on, let the setting "take", then turn them off again). AFAIK Apple still doesn't provide a GUI interface for this, but it can be done in Terminal or by any of about a zillion different utility packages (I recommend OnyX, which is free).

Having the same issue.

Has this not been fixed yet?

10.10.5

My problem started today, i had about 900gb free a week ago. Today i get Startup disk errors stating my space is low. I check and it says i have 10gb free, which is IMPOSSIBLE, i keep majority of my files on my 2tb External. I know for a fact i have about 120 gb used but the rest is definitely unaccounted for. My computer shows 1tb Used!

Tried everything listed on this board, nothing has fixed my problem.

Oh well, it seems that users' content is not being calculated for sessions you are not logged in. Having different softwares with large database located under various users makes it a puzzle to display the overall HD size, eventhough you are logged into the admin session.

Therefore, my issue seems to be related to displaying the total breakdown for storage used accross all users' sessions rather than a miscalculation of the storage space.

I realized that when trying to manually backup all my folders on an external HD.

I apologize for the tone of my initial post.

Same here. I had this problem since last year and it seems Apple won't do anything.

OS X El Capitan on MacBook Pro (13-inch – Late 2013)