10.10.3 Finder Status Bar information is wrong, TB not GB

YES. This is a Time Machine / Finder bug.

<<<< EXTENSIVE TESTING >>>>

I have had the 2.89 PB Available (or similar) on and off for several iterations of reinstalls, clean wipes of HD, reinstall clean image.

The problem will go away on a new install and come back shortly there after.

Uninstalled Box Sync

Thought it was a Dropbox sync issue.

NONE OF THE ABOVE.

When I disable Time Machine and restart ---> I can CLEARLY see that the finder upon opening says 2.89 PB available, followed by a quick "wait spin" icon for about half a second after which the FINDER refreshes and shows correctly that 624 GB are free.

AND (get this...) I can toggle ON and OFF the Time Machine via System Preferences and the Finder will correct itself and then mysteriously start multiplying available disk space.

"Time Machine OFF" is the only solution to correct read of the disk for now.

This issue hit me yesterday after a day of hard-disc decluttering. No other symptoms.

Two rounds of NVRAM and SMC restting didn't clear the problem but disabling tmutil did — thanks, kimhmc. I don't really need tmutil, so unless there's a specific reason for disabling it to be "a bad idea" I'll wait for a fix before I re-enable it.

Same problem here. Resetting NV-Ram + SMC didn't help. Only disabling mobilebackups helped me out. Thank you kimhmc!

I'm really shocked. This is not Apple anymore. Yosemite is only buggy, buggier, buggiest! It's really, really major frustrating! 13 years of using Apple and feeling like Windows now.

I have no idea why but since two days, Finder is showing the correct free amount of space again. What I did? Nothing. Very strange. I will monitor how long it will last.

Turning off Time Machine via System Preferences worked for us, it seems.

But seriously, Apple is obviously doing a bad job with it's OS. We spend more time at work fixing bugs than working. Our Windows user friends in the offices are laughing and giggling.

And by the way, turning off Time Machine isn't the greatest solution for a business.

Indeed, turning off Time Machine isn't the greatest solution for a business. Is it really necessary?

I've found just disabling local backups to be an effective workaround for what seems to be just a cosmetic, if unsettling problem. At the moment my MacBook Pro isn't travelling — the case for your machines too? — and I'm still getting hourly TM backups.

To ekick and joao_oliv (see posts below):

Thank you for your suggestions! I had the same problem and your suggestion remedied it. I did this 1 week ago (and had turned TM backups back on a week ago) and the problem has not recurred this past week, even with TM backups running the whole time.

ekickApr 11, 2015 12:52 PM Re: 10.10.3 Finder Status Bar information is wrong, TB not GB

I had the same problem, what helped was deactivating Time Machine in the TM-settings - restart - then activate TM machine again. But after a while and some TM backups the problem reoccured.

HTH Erich

joao_olivApr 11, 2015 3:57 PM

By disabling the TimeMachine > Restarting > enabling it again... it fixed on boot but shortly after (5 min) it goes back into (TB or PB values)

Cheers

now the problem reappeared again, unfortunately the Finder is not showing totally wrong free TB or even PB free space, but 151 GB free space, although about this mac shows 70 GB free space, see below:

Just wondering if the 10.10.4 update cleared this problem? Update after update of Yosemite has just added new bugs in our computers, so we're not trusting Apple anymore with their updates.

Thanks for the responses, if any.

The short answer to your question is: possibly, yes. Since I last posted about this problem my 2008 MBP sadly passed away (serious GPU failure that's uneconomic / impossible to fix) and I used the SSD from that machine to set up my new rMBP. Lo and behold, the problem came across along with the rest of my data! I decided that it was just as easy to leave Time Machine disabled so that I would always be able to see correct storage info and just activate 'manually' to make TM backups whenever I needed to. For me this was a completely satisfactory compromise. However, since updating to 10.10.4 on 30th June I've left TM 'On' to see if the problem would recur and it hasn't. Obviously this isn't conclusive evidence that there's been a fix in 10.10.4 but it hasn't previously taken this long to reappear. Fingers are well and truly plaited! This hasn't been a make or break issue for me as both MBPs have been otherwise working normally but it is slightly disappointing that (by all reports here) Apple weren't able to identify a definitive fix, or admit there was an issue that would be addressed in an upcoming OSX update, to save all the speculative fiddling / resetting / reinstalling that did absolutely nothing to cure the problem.

Thanks Mempoule for the answer. Happy it worked for you (but sad about the 2008 MBP).

But, from other discussions and articles I'm reading, it seems a better idea to stay clear of this update. I've been having other problems (WiFi of course and a whole list of other bugs) since the 10.10.3 update. Small fixes like turning off TM fixed the "Wrong Status Bar info" and turning off Bluetooth kinda helped with the WiFi issues (I have speeds three quarters down).

Cannot take any more chances.

Good luck to other Mac users.

Very true. Just bought this $3000 Macbook Pro and I'm having occasional freezes, and now this wrong space reporting. Lately OS X has been feeling more like Windows and at the same time Windows 7 used to run perfect for me.

So the culprit is Time Machine. Disabled it, rebooted, now its fixed.

I have same issue on exact same model of macbook.

I found what's wrong. I't because of local backups....

Just cleaned 200 GB!!!!

you can delete them with sudo rm -rf /.MobileBackups.trash

I actually did it twice and it worked. one question, is it okay if I re-index the selected drives twice? thank u