Q: "Macintosh HD" available space issue
So I recently purchased this Mac (Retina MacBook 15", Late 2013) and everything was hunky-dory. However, recently, after playing some video games, I noticed that I was no longer able to save the game. The game in question (The Witcher) prompted me with a dialog box that says that there is no more space to save the game. I knew that I had over 300 GB free on my main partition, since I don't use a lot of it. But when I checked Disk Utility, this happened.
Here, it shows that there are only 18.9 MB left in free space. When I click on the actual partition, this is what I get:
Obviously, there is some disconnect between the actual partition and the hard drive itself. When I press "About This Mac," it also shows the correct amount of space:
Any help would be appreciated. I turned Time Machine on and off, rebooted, repaired Disk Permissions and the Disk, but nothing changed. Thanks!
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Posted on Jan 3, 2015 10:54 AM
Yeah, that turned out to be the problem. Apparently, the drive was formatted as a logical volume instead of as a GUID Partition Table. That was the source of the problem. After reformatting it properly, everything is back to normal.
Posted on Jan 3, 2015 7:09 PM



