New MBA showing approx 2GB of Music, Movies & Photos.....Where are they??

• Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.
• For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion, space may being consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled. OS X Lion: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs
• Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
• Search with Finder to see if the space is being consumed by a very large file or several large files. Adjust the 50GB in the illustration to whatever size you deem appropriate.
• Use OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report, Disk Inventory X, DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to see how space is being used on your drive. Some of these apps may show more detail than others, so try several.
• Check your drive with Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
• Try re-indexing your drive: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes

• Encrypted drive
• Time Machine backup files and needed disk repair
• App filling log file
• App or file was 89GB
• Drive needed to be re-indexed
• Time Machine backup file
• Large app cache file
• Garageband files and video podcasts
• Oversized email being duplicated
• Another email issue

GGJstudios said:

If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion storage tab is about, this may help explain:

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sviato said:

According to his post, that's not what he's wondering about.

I don't know if this is the right answer but I'd assume it may be some tutorials, images, or sound files for the OS.

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For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:

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