I released 500 GB of hard disk moving the contents of this 500 GB to a external disk. The available capacity in the disk, as informed by finder has only increased in 100 GB. Is any way to recalculate the availability properly or reset the figures o available disk space??
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)
Hi CADARSO,
I understand that your recently moved content to an external drive but you are not showing that much of a change on your Mac. Let's see if we can fix that for you.
I would start with taking a look at the article below. it will walk you through verify and repairing the startup volume on your Mac. I know it talks about startup issues but because this deals with your hard drive that runs you mac, these exact steps will at least verify and repair if it finds anything.
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203176
Let me know if this helps.
Have a good day
Did you delete the items you had copied to an external and then emptied the trash? (iPhoto has its own trash; so does iMovie - that needs to be emptied as well). You need to check all of that because, when you copy things to an external, the originals remain where they are at.
Thank you very much for your kind help. Your comments have been very useful to me.
Best regards.
Thank you very much norm123. I read the article you indicated and used disk utility. Very useful.
Best regards.
Thank you very much. I emptied the trash of iPhoto, as you suggested. I has been very useful.
Best regards.
**** CADARSO,
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Released 500 GB of hard disk without increase in capacity availability
