Q: Lost disk space
Hello,
I have a Macbook pro retina mi-2012 (10.1) with 16gb of ram.
I'm using mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.3
I'm trying to setup a bootcamp partition. The problem is that the finder says that I have 133 gb available but the bootcamp assistant and the disk utility say that I have only 56 Gb available. I've tried to do the Sos procedure in the disk utility in the recovery mode, it says that all is ok and I don't recover my space. The disk utility says that all the lost space is used for "Movies". But I don't have any movies. And the finder says that I have 133 gb left. Even Onyx says that I have only 56 Gb left. What am I missing ?
Thanks for your help.
Mac OS X (10.7.1), Mac OS X server 10.7.1
Posted on Feb 1, 2016 9:38 AM
Thanks for your help. I found where is the problem. It seems that disk utility and many programs rely on spotlight to display disk space. So when the index is not up-to-date or buggy, some programs display wrong data. Rebuilding indexing with excluding the startup partition in the spotlight pane do the trick.
Posted on Feb 1, 2016 10:05 AM