HT202867: OS X: What is "other" space in About This Mac?

Learn about OS X: What is "other" space in About This Mac?
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Q: 144 gb of other files? and 49gb missing?

on about my mac under storage it shows 144gb of other files.

 

my concern is that when i run omnidisksweeper as root, it only shows about 188gb total and i have a 256gb hard drive.

 

249.77gb total after formatting according to about this mac.

 

if i add up all the totals from omnidisksweeper - ran as root - i get 139.8gb.  + the 60gb of free space i get 199.8gb total.

 

i'm missing about 49gb from my drive?

 

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MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), mid 2011

Posted on Jan 5, 2015 3:41 AM