Discrepancies in free Hard Drive size?

[Fuzzy.Dunlop]

Lately I've noticed that "other" has been slowly creeping up to 75gb

I've read up a bit and turned off time machine then re verified my disk and repaired, then deleted unwanted/old files with omnidisk and have gained 35gb (was 25gb before using omni).

Omnidisk now says that my drive is used to 362gb , however about this mac says that I've used 390gb - Where would I find this "missing" 38gb

Also since the clean up "other" is still showing as 75gb

Any ideas?

 

[GGJstudios]

If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion 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, 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
• 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

 

[Fuzzy.Dunlop]

Thanks, i'll have a play - between writing posts other has increased by 700mb

 

[GGJstudios]

Thanks, i'll have a play - between writing posts other has increased by 700mb

I would suspect something like an app filling the log file. See the link in my first post, but don't rule out other possibilities.

 

[Fuzzy.Dunlop]

I would suspect something like an app filling the log file. See the link in my first post, but don't rule out other possibilities.

Tried the above and am still at 75gb, when I open omni I get this

Looks like a trip to the apple store or a clean install of everything