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Q: Lost HD Space

My Macbook running Yosemite shows that I am using my entire 128 GB storage capacity.  When I go to "About This Mac" it shows the typical Photos, Audio, Movies, etc. but the "Other" capacity shows almost 100 GB used.  When I manually look at each individual folder to calculate storage used, I am missing 50 GB of space.  I have also ran a sudo mdutil to reassess usage which freed up 1 GB.  Are there hidden files similar to those found on the Windows operating system I am not seeing?  If so, how does one locate and delete such files?

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Aug 15, 2016 8:26 AM

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