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More than half of my hard drive space turned unusable after I installed lion GM. What's going on?
On a slightly unrelated note, which application are you using to gain that graphic of your hard drive space?
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More than half of my hard drive space turned unusable after I installed lion GM. What's going on?
Mine just shows as all 'Other', I upgraded from SL, so am presuming to get this working properly it requires a clean installation of 10.7?
Any other solutions? This solution quoted here only frees up space in the 'Back Up' part and not the 'other' part of the hard drive. Seems like Omni Disk Sweep is the only solution
If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion/ML storage tab is about, this may help explain:
For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:
Here are a few resolutions found by others with the same question:
- Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.
- For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion or later, space may be consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled.
- Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
- Check the System Memory tab in Activity Monitor to check page outs and swap used. If swap used is significant, restart your computer and track that value under your normal workload. If you have significant page outs under normal use, you could benefit from more RAM.
- 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
Freeing up space in Mac OS X
- 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
How OS X and iOS report storage capacity
Other people have posted this, but other is pretty much everything else that dosen't fit in the other categories. Just letting you know.
Take a screen shot of your Finder window with something typed in the search field and post it.Thanks for the hard work! My search doesn't have that + to add criteria. Any idea why?