After hard drive swap, available space shows different

[kraven]

I just recently swapped my macbook pro harddrive from 160gb to 500gb. I used superduper to clone the original drive into the 500gb. And then I swapped the drives. It works fine BUT...

...if I check the space available in Finder, it shows the correct available space when I highlight my HD in under Devices, and Applications under Places, BUT it shows different (less) when I highlight Home, Desktop, and etc.

Does anyone know why and if I did something wrong? Thanks.

 

[mkrishnan]

I don't completely follow you.

Are you saying that the available capacity is lower when you highlight the folders individually than when you select the whole drive, or that the total amount of space occupied is less? The space occupied should be less, because Finder hides some system files.

But if you're saying that the available capacity changes, that's odd.... post screenshots.

 

[DoFoT9]

COMPLETELY odd!!!

can you check your partitions in Disk Utility?? make sure that there is only 1 big partition...

 

[kraven]

Here are the images below. Under Applications and Macbook.HD. the space is 259gb. But The rest is 170gb.

And I went into Disk Utility, it's just one partition.

 

[dotdotdot]

Just wondering, does FileVault make a different partition or something as to hide the information? If so, your home folder (and all the contents in that folder, like Pictures and Documents) will show the amount of space left in that special, password-protected partition.

 

[kraven]

I do have filevault enabled. Maybe that is the problem. Do you think I should disable it and then enable it again?

 

[DoFoT9]

I do have filevault enabled. Maybe that is the problem. Do you think I should disable it and then enable it again?

yes, that definitely looks like the problem.