Widowbird

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Q: Storage availability is not consistent

Hi guys

How are the two estimations of my storage availability different? Or it's simply the blue bar on the right displaying a wrong estimation?

Thank you

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), iOS 9.3.1

Posted on Apr 11, 2016 12:53 PM

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Widowbird,

It may be helpful if you follow the steps listed in: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes - Apple Support

Posted on Apr 11, 2016 1:09 PM

Q: Storage availability is not consistent

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by Allan Eckert,

Allan Eckert Apr 11, 2016 1:04 PM in response to Widowbird
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Apr 11, 2016 1:04 PM in response to Widowbird

Are you talking about the difference between 249.78 GB and 251 GB?

You realize that is a difference of 1.22 GB which is less than 0.5 %. The is overhead on the disk drive that is probably using that disk space which is not be reflect in the display of the disk space.
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Ferd II Apr 11, 2016 1:09 PM in response to Widowbird
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Apr 11, 2016 1:09 PM in response to Widowbird

Widowbird,

It may be helpful if you follow the steps listed in: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes - Apple Support
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Widowbird Apr 11, 2016 1:07 PM in response to Allan Eckert
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Apr 11, 2016 1:07 PM in response to Allan Eckert

Thanks for your reply. I'm talking about the blue bar on the right. It says over 167GB has been occupied by apps, but on the left, it clearly shows that only 59/60GB of storage has been used on my computer. Why is it the case?
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