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Deleted folders but HD is still full????

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velag2011

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Dec 16, 2011
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Dear fellow mac lovers,

I have a question regarding my 5 years old mac book pro (OS X 10.5). By the years the HD gets full and I deleted most of the files to make space for new things. But my HD is still showing that its full, even thought when i check the size of individual folders, they occupy bare minimum. So, could some one help me to get my HD space back.

Thanks in advance.

Best,

RV
 
velag2011 said:
Dear fellow mac lovers,

I have a question regarding my 5 years old mac book pro (OS X 10.5). By the years the HD gets full and I deleted most of the files to make space for new things. But my HD is still showing that its full, even thought when i check the size of individual folders, they occupy bare minimum. So, could some one help me to get my HD space back.

Thanks in advance.

Best,

RV
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im assuming you emptied the trash?
 
The only time I saw a problem like this ( HDD space gobbled up ) it was a user induced error.

It was on a non-Intel Powermac when the user attempted to install an Intel CPU Only application.

Nothing we did could remedy the issue except the extreme action of .....
Repartitioning/Reformatting and reinstalling the OS.

I doubt it is your issue, but might be something to look in to.


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Someone in the Lion forum just had something of the same sort and turned out that a user folder had several movie files in it that nothing was reporting them as present (Info, DiskUtilty, and several 3rd party mapping apps).
 
Actual size: 92.84 GB
Used: 92.74 GB
Available: 100.3 MB

If i calculate all the fold sizes, they are coming around 40 GB. I intentionally deleted all the folders leaving couple currently using ones. But this did not emptyed my HD.



iisforiphone said:
how much free space do you think you should have vs what it shows you have?

are you on lion?

time machine takes local snapshots on lion
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Do you have an external drive you could use to back up your stuff and then reformat and reinstall? It wouldn't solve this mystery but it would probably solve the problem in a matter of hours.
 
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