I have deleted almost 20+ GB's of photos and videos. I emptied the trash and it disappeared but when I look at the storage status of my hard drive it shows that all of the data has still there, but now under the Other category and I cannot fix it,
MacBook Air, OSX El Capitaine
Re-index Macintosh HD.
Spotlight reindexing will take a while to finish.
System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
Note:
If you don’t have Macintosh HD icon shown on the desktop,
Finder > Preferences > General > Show these items on the desktop:
Enable “Hard disks”.
System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
Drag the Macintosh HD into the Privacy pane of the Spotlight window.
When you add Macintosh HD to the Privacy pane of Spotlight
You will get a dialog box like this.
Click “OK”.
Highlight “Macintosh HD” and click the minus “-“ button at the lower left of the pane.
The problem is now worse.
I do not know what this Other section is but is just doubled after doing what you said.
About “Other”
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
Restart the computer.
Reindex the spotlight again.
why does deleting apps/photos/videos not free up space on my hard drive?
