Hard Drive Space Available?

[pasipple]

I have a MacBook Pro with a 500GB HD with only 76 GB of space left. I moved 200GB of movie files to an external drive then deleted the movie files from my Mac so I could free up the space on the HD.

For some reason the HD still shows only 76GB of space available even though the entire movie folder was deleted.

Is there something I need to do to get finder to update the GB available?

 

[MacDawg]

Have to ask... did you empty the trash?

 

[pasipple]

Thanks for asking! No I had not emptied the trash....but I have now.

I feel so stupid but I'm a new Mac user...

Thanks

 

[spinnerlys]

Also have a look at the following links, as the information presented there might be helpful in your future endeavours into Mac OS X and could clear up initial confusion and may even prevent harm to your system or your files.

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/ - text

http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/ - videos

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343-keyboard - shortcuts

 

[Gregg2]

No I had not emptied the trash....but I have now.

I feel so stupid but I'm a new Mac user...

Don't be so hard on yourself! It's not like it starts to smell when you haven't emptied it!! Now, there's an idea for 10.7 !!!