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Hello,
when opening the "Storage" Panel in About Mac (newest MacOS), the Photos are count double (one time correct as "Photos", and additional under "documents"). I have only a few GB of Documents on my Computer but the panel shows clearly the documents+photos space consumption under documents. Any idea how to fix that?
Thank you!
The Storage tab does not always report correctly. Look in About this Mac > System Report > Storage. Also check by choosing your Mac HD and "Get Info" (command-i). It may be different. Try rebuilding Spotlight index.
How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
Some of the space may also be from Time Machine Snapshots.
About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support
After you've freed up some space download Omni DiskSweeper:
https://www.omnigroup.com/more
DiskSweeper can give you a more accurate read of disk space than Finder or Storage Tab of About this Mac. Itcan also show you the precise size and location of all your files..It can also give you a more accurate read of disk space than Finder or Storage Tab of About this Mac. Itcan show you the precise size and location of all your files. It will inventory your disk starting from the files that take up the most space. It can also give you a more accurate read of disk space than Finder or Storage Tab of About this Mac. If you want you can even delete files from OmniDisk Sweeper. But be careful some of the items may be important to your system.
For information about the Other category in the Storage display, please see Apple Support Topic
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
Also, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
In Photos: File ▹ Show Recently Deleted ▹ Delete All
The Storage tab does not always report correctly. Look in About this Mac > System Report > Storage. Also check by choosing your Mac HD and "Get Info" (command-i). It may be different. Try rebuilding Spotlight index.
How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
Some of the space may also be from Time Machine Snapshots.
About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support
After you've freed up some space download Omni DiskSweeper:
https://www.omnigroup.com/more
DiskSweeper can give you a more accurate read of disk space than Finder or Storage Tab of About this Mac. Itcan also show you the precise size and location of all your files..It can also give you a more accurate read of disk space than Finder or Storage Tab of About this Mac. Itcan show you the precise size and location of all your files. It will inventory your disk starting from the files that take up the most space. It can also give you a more accurate read of disk space than Finder or Storage Tab of About this Mac. If you want you can even delete files from OmniDisk Sweeper. But be careful some of the items may be important to your system.
For information about the Other category in the Storage display, please see Apple Support Topic
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
Also, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
In Photos: File ▹ Show Recently Deleted ▹ Delete All
For this feature when I need to find out info about my disk space and files taking it I use DaisyDisk. It gives you very exact info even about the files with restricted access. But I’ll definitely checkout OmniDisk as well. 😉
Thank you. I already rebuilded Spotlight-Index and deleted all Time-Machine-History. Is there no way to fix the build in functionality?
Not that I know of. Sometimes the Spotlight rebuild will fix it but more often than not that doesn't work.
OmniDiskSweeper unfortunately is for Macs running OS X v10.8 to v10.12, for Macs running macOS 10.12 and above there are test builds only. :-(
It is fine on High Sierra.
Did you actually witness Spotlight re indexing?
Thanks for the heads-up. I hadn't noticed that. My ODW still functions well in High Sierra although I downloaded it in 2013.
Eau Rouge wrote:
It is fine on High Sierra.
Yes, mine too. But now I wonder how it works on APFS? I'm running on a rotational drive.
Yep I am on a spinner too.
"About Mac->Storage" Shows Photos twice
