Where do I find the amount of storage available?

I am researching how to upgrade the operating system for my Macbook Air, late 2010, OS X 10.6.8. The information I found said I needed a certain amount of free storage space to be able to upgrade, but I can't find anywhere that tells me how much free storage space I have available. I've looked everywhere. My husband has a later operating system and all he has to do is click on the Apple icon and a box comes up that has a link to his storage stats. When I click on MY apple icon, I get no such information.

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 31, 2018 1:19 PM

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Posted on Mar 31, 2018 1:22 PM

Apple in upper left corner > About this... > More info


Or click on the hard drive icon on the Desktop then Finder > File > Get Info

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Apr 1, 2018 6:57 PM in response to pstovall

IF you can see the Mac HDD icon on desktop - or if its hiding - via Finder in Dock

use get info on that icon. That should open a new small info screen with both the

unused capacity and used capacity; these together may constitute the full amount.


In example follows is from another location: Total is Larger, & unused is Small number.

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You could also choose to select in settings, for folder/drive to show its capacity.

This shows from Finder in Dock, in another window; as HDD is hidden otherwise.


Otherwise you'd have to look via Apple (icon) menu > About this Mac > (in new

window, choose More Info) then look for Hard Drives (SATA in newer, ATA older)

for one that will expose the working system's home startup drive. Because I'm

working with older G4 PPC Mac Mini 1.5GHz (Late 2005) in Leopard 10.5.8, the

screenshots I could take won't be a useful comparison, due to vintage difference.

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Because one reply had been marked 'solved' and the path described is workable,

you have to know what the System Report (Profiler) tree represents &/or contains.


These internal names have changed; for those with more than decade of Mac use

this can be troublesome to just say where to go or how to get there ~ nowadays.

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Apr 1, 2018 1:54 PM in response to Limnos

If I click on the Apple in the upper left corner, then "About this Mac," then "More info," this is what I get:


Hardware Overview:


Model Name: MacBook Air

Model Identifier: MacBookAir3,2

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 1.86 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 6 MB

Memory: 2 GB

Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Boot ROM Version: MBA31.0061.B01

SMC Version (system): 1.66f61

Serial Number (system): C0******DR2

Hardware UUID: ***


Does any of that tell the amount of storage I have left?


Also on this screen in the left hand "contents"menu, I get:

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Does any of THAT tell me about storage?


My husband IS able to find the "Storage" when he clicks on HIS Apple icon, but he has a later operating system.


If I go to "Finder," then "File," then "More Info," I get this:

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Maybe some of this info is related to storage, but I see no clear cut statement about the amount of available storage. Can anyone help?


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