Disk Utility and Info do not agree on capacity Used?

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Hi.

Macbook pro 13' 2010.

120Gb SSD.

(320GB Harddrive in optical drive).

The SSD is used to mainly run O/S and has only 5 first tier files, The size of each from Info tabs are:

11.14GB

6.77GB

4.07GB

6.3MB

8.0KB

Total: 22GB approx.

Disc Utility tells me that: 99.58 used . 19.6 available.

Info tells me that: 36.06 used . 83.12 available.

Why is there such a great difference between the amount of disk space used?

Thanks

Patrick.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 9, 2015 4:37 AM

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Answer 1

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Re-index Macintosh HD.

Spotlight reindexing will take a while to finish.

System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy

About “Other”:

Note:

If you don’t have Macintosh HD icon on the desktop,

Finder > Preferences > General > Show these items on the desktop:

Enable “Hard disks”.

Discrepancy in calculating space between Finder and Disk Utility

“Finder does not take into account the Backups/ local snapshots,

but disk utility includes them.”

Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots

Local backups

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