Q: My hard drive 500GB Flash is half way full but I deleted almost all my files
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Feb 25, 2016 12:06 PMby KimUserName,Hi Alex:
Have you emptied the Trash.
It will not free up space until then.
Try downloading and installing OmniDiskSweeper https://www.omnigroup.com/more it sorts all your files by size and will show you where all the space is being used.
Also see this video on how to use it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2Bz1VIfRw
Kim
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Feb 25, 2016 12:08 PMby Pmintz25,If you have Bootcamp/Windows installed, it will show up as "Other" by clicking > About This Mac. This can take up a lot of space.
If you don't have Windows installed, try reindexing Spotlight. Your computer may not be accurately finding your files. Reindexing Spotlight will make Spotlight "forget" your file layout and "find" the files again. You will not lose any data by doing this.
Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes - Apple Support
In step 4, you are adding the entire hard drive (Macintosh HD) and then removing it in step 6.
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Feb 25, 2016 12:26 PMby Lexiepex,And still more than already said:
Open SystemPreferences->TimeMachine
it may say "local snapshots": these are put on your macBookPro when there is enough free space on the disk of Apple laptops.
You have a flash drive (SSD) this benefits when you do as minimum writes as possible:
you can turn the local snapshots off by a Terminal command:
Open Terminal (in the Utilities folder): copy/paste the following command after the cursor:
sudo tmutil disablelocal
(it asks you to type in your password after that)
then quit Terminal.
The space that was taken by the local snapshots will be freed up.
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Feb 25, 2016 2:32 PMby Alex0815,Thank you very much guys. I did Check my User Account and with a Right click on Informations it did Show me a file size of 172 GB
but there where no files close to that size. I have decided to reset the Computer to Factory Settings and than Restore my
important things from Time Machine. Takes about two days but it is maybe the best.
I Will keep you updated
