Free Space Disappear in internal drive

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Free Space Disappear in internal drive

Hi y'all...
I have a weird situation and i will be happy if u could help me,
i had 2 big projects on my Macbook Pro ( (mid 2013) 15.4 Retina with 512SSD drive) for a long time and today i finish them and copy them for external HD to free up some space on my laptop, the projects both took like almost 350GB of my 512GB SSD so i had to delete them, after i delete this 2 folders and move them to trash bin and empty the trash bin i still don't see this empty space
in one hand the drive seems to be ok and show me that i have 383GB available but on the other hand i see that almost 300 GB been taken my Backup file (don't know where it come from or what it is) and i can't find it on my drive and when i tried to copy new project to the laptop it says that there is not enough space for it (and the new project is "only" 120GB)
how do i fix this plz ?

P.S: I add few screenshot to let u understand what i meant
Thank u very much
Amit

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Apr 28, 2016 12:27 PM

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Answer 1

OGELTHORPE

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Apr 29, 2016 1:39 AM in response to KenVeLoBoy

This is probably what you are experiencing:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204015

http://pondini.org/TM/30.html

Note that they will be deleted if space is required for other data. You may ignore them.

Ciao.

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KenVeLoBoy Author

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Apr 29, 2016 1:39 AM in response to OGELTHORPE

yeah probably it is, thank u very much my friend, but i have another question now,
i read that it using free space as long as i don't need it, but i was trying to copy another project of 120GB to the internal drive and it says that there is not enough space to copy it (and i have 380GB available as u see at the photos...)
why is that and i do i fix it plz ? i doesn't say in the links

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Answer 3

OGELTHORPE

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Apr 29, 2016 2:58 AM in response to KenVeLoBoy

Lets see if we can verify what is in the HDD.

First reindex Spotlight:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716

Does that result in any changes to the display that you posted?

Download from the Internet OmniDiskSweeper and Grand Perspective (both free) and open them. They will show all of your files and the respective sizes.

https://www.omnigroup.com/more

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

How do the ODS and GP totals compare? (Note that the values calculated by ODS and GP will be about 7% than what the Mac shows. That is because Mac does decimal calculations, ODS and GP do binary)

Ciao.

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