Q: Hard drive space discrepancy

I have a 1 Tb hard drive. When I look at the drive, it only shows 90Gb available. But if I add the immediate subdirectories, they only add up to 700Gb, so 300 Gb should be available. Where is the "hidden" used 210 Gb? Thanks...

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 12, 2015 1:03 PM

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alex_h1 May 14, 2015 12:10 PM in response to dbarash
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May 14, 2015 12:10 PM in response to dbarash

Hello dbarash,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.

If you'd like to find out what is taking up space on your hard disk drive, you can follow the directions outlined below to get an overview.

To view Storage information for your connected volumes, select About This Mac from the Apple menu, then click the More Info button in the window that appears. Next, click the Storage tab to display storage information
OS X: What is "other" space in About This Mac? - Apple Support

Take care,
Alex H.
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dbarash May 14, 2015 12:32 PM in response to alex_h1
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May 14, 2015 12:32 PM in response to alex_h1

Thanks.... Actually, it turned out to be that there was another user name that had 250 Gb of pictures attached to it. I took a guess at it and was lucky.
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