Q: why does deleting apps/photos/videos not free up space on my hard drive?
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Oct 12, 2015 2:36 PMby dominic23,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.
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Oct 13, 2015 3:54 PMby dominic23,About “Other”
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
Restart the computer.
Reindex the spotlight again.
