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Help with lost HD space

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chemdoc93

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Jun 30, 2011
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I am running OS X (10.6.8) with 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4 GB RM. I have a 1 TB internal HD that shows 999.86 GB Capacity. Finder indicates that I only have 27.53 GB available, and have used 972.33 GB. I used omni sweeper to help find large files (both hidden and visible):

Output:

152.4 GB Users
6.7 GB Library
4.3 GB Applications
2.4 GB System
1.2 GB Private
0.6 GB remaining files


I can only find about 170 GB of data stored and need to understand where the remaining 800 GB is being used…any suggestions.
 
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Under disk utility - does it show that you have a single partition on your HDD?
 
monaarts said:
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Under disk utility - does it show that you have a single partition on your HDD?
Click to expand...

yes...one partition
 
Is it possible your 1TB drive was stolen and swapped with something smaller?
 
Have you upgraded the OS, say from 10.5 to 10.6? If so, was the original install an 'archive and install'?

Freed up a lot of space on my old white c2d imac by deleting archives of 10.5 that had been sitting there for a while.
 
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