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Q: How to recover the free disk space of deleted files?

Dear Support Community,

 

I have a big problem with my MBP 2015. I deleted a lot of files, emptied the trash etc. but still do not have the freed up space available. Somewhere it gets lost. I would guess that it is a core storage problem, but I don't know enough about OS X to be sure.

 

What I have:

I use BootCamp and have a Windows partition. I did have FileVault switched on. The Macintosh partition is around 900 GB in size.

When I select all folders on Macintosh HD and get info, it says that these folders and files add up to 486 GB -> around 400 GB should be free, which sounds about right.

Finder says that 156 GB are free. Disk utility says that 127 GB are free.

 

What I tried:

I did use disk utility to repair the volume and repair the permissions.

I disabled FileVault and did this again.

I even used Onyx and CleanMyMac 2.

 

So I am missing around 400 GB of disk space and do not know how to get it back.

 

Kind regards,

Markus

 

Below a screenshot showing Finder get info dialogue with all folders in Macintosh HD selected and disk utility in the background. In German, sorry for that

 

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Posted on Jul 2, 2015 2:13 PM

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