Hi I was wondering why would my storage space change whenever I look at it for example when I opened storage on about my mac it said 29.51 GB available but later it decreased to 29.24 and right now its at 29.39
Should I be worried someone is using my mac and I have a backdoor virus or malware ?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), iOS 10.3.3, malaware
Hi,
No, not to worry. That Storage report often has a glitch in it.
The About This Mac > Storage report depends on the Spotlight index and may have a glitch, meaning it is too often not correct. Try rebuilding your Spotlight index, then restart: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716
If no luck, try booting into Safe Mode: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262 and check out the Storage report. It won't show categories (everything will show as Other), but should show accurate the amount of free space out of the total capacity. Also go to Applications > Utilities > System Information > Hardware > Storage to see your total Capacity and space Available and/or click once on your HD icon on the desktop > go to File menu > select Get Info > note what it says about Capacity and Available. These should be accurate.
Check one or more of the following to see exactly what/where your storage is:
https://www.omnigroup.com/more (OmniDiskSweeper)
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net (Grand Perspective)
http://www.derlien.com/downloads/ (Disk Inventory X)
My storage space on my mac keeps changing
