anyone use istat pro widget on macbook retina 15 ?

[anonymous4a]

Just curious, does anyone's hard drive read 233 gigs total free cause that's what mine reads.. but I have a 256 gig hard drive.. I know it reads as 250 gigs after formating .. and maybe those additional 17 gigs are used for the OS but shouldn't it still read as 250 gigs free ? This is what it looks like

 

[GGJstudios]

Just curious, does anyone's hard drive read 233 gigs total free cause that's what mine reads.. but I have a 256 gig hard drive.. I know it reads as 250 gigs after formating .. and maybe those additional 17 gigs are used for the OS but shouldn't it still read as 250 gigs free ? This is what it looks like

It's not an issue with iStat Pro. Do you use Time Machine?

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

What is this "Other" in the storage tab? What is eating my space​

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

• 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.
  
  OS X: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs​
  
  
• 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

Here are a few resolutions found by others with the same question:

• 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

Freeing up space in Mac OS X

How OS X and iOS report storage capacity

 

[anonymous4a]

time machine is turned off and I've restarted a couple of times

 

[snaky69]

Just curious, does anyone's hard drive read 233 gigs total free cause that's what mine reads.. but I have a 256 gig hard drive.. I know it reads as 250 gigs after formating .. and maybe those additional 17 gigs are used for the OS but shouldn't it still read as 250 gigs free ? This is what it looks like

250gb once formatted, I believe a clean install takes up roughly 15GB, so you should be seeing in the neighbourhood of 235GB free on a brand spanking new machine with no software installed on it. Your numbers sound about right. I don't think I understand your logic of saying you should be seeing 250GB free if the OS is taking up 15GB, those 15GB's aren't free, they are being used by the OS.

Remember that formatting does not mean an OS is installed, it only means the disk is ready to have an OS installed onto it or data written to it.

 

[anonymous4a]

hope this picture shows up, so instead of it reading 250 gigs total, the free and used hard drive gives me a total of 232 gigs . Shouldn't it include the 15 gigs for the OS in the used hard drive space ?