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I can't explain all of this [SSD almost full]
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I see your point but I did the same thing to mine and it said that my library folder is huge too, something like 12.3 GB - but then when I went to my actual library folder, Ctrl+Click'd, and selected "Get Info"...It said my library folder was only 2.99GB. It something wrong with Lion and the new MacBook Airs
Nice, didn't know that one.
It still doesn't add up, which is why he should do it in /
You don't. Really ?
No I don't. Would you care to enlighten us Oh Great Macintosh Wizard?!
You need to elaborate a bit more. Where did you find the backup file, in what directory is it located?
Which actual Library folder did you go to? Mac OSX has one for the system and then another Library folder for each user.
My Library folder in my home directory is reported as 7 GB in terminal. In finder "Go to folder --> ~/Library" it is reported as 7.4 GB, which is slightly odd but not the same discrepancy as yours.
Then my /Library (System library) is 2.8 GBs.
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You can prevent it by switching it off via the Terminal. There is a discussion with instructions on how to do this over in the MBP sub-forum.
Go in there and find out.
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To OP and others:
There is a whole lot of confusion in this thread so let me try and help to explain.
The graphic that you see in "About this Mac" is nothing but a graphical representation of how Apple sees your stuff with its view of the world. It is looking through your entire hard drive and if there are any graphic pictures that it thinks are "photos" it will report them as such.
For example in my graphic the Photos are listed as 516 MB, but I only have 6 MB of photos in my photo folder.
My music folder is shown as 10 GB, but I have no music on my computer. Why? Because the Music folder is where your iTunes library is. It's where your mobile apps are stored. Open the folder and look in there for yourself - it won't bite you. If I navigate to Music/iTunes/iTunes Media I can see that my mobile apps folder is 10 GB and I have a couple of hundred MBs worth of Album cover artwork and so forth (Photos in the graphical display). In the graphic the space taken up by the mobile apps will be reported as other.
My movies folder is over 30 GBs right now, but the graphic reports that I have 4.46 GBs of movies. This is because I have movies in mkv format and Mac OSX does not classify files with .mkv as movies.
Do you understand? You have finder to see where your space is. Use it. If you don't know how to, then learn how to use it. It won't bite you.
OP, I am guessing that your 15 GBs of music is due to your streaming services saving music files on your hard drive somewhere when buffering (probably in the ~/Library) folder.
Here is more about the TM offline backups for others
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1208798/
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Look at what I quoted. You have 1.6 GB in your user's Music folder. The system finds 1.6 GB of Music... doesn't take a Wizard to figure it out. I thought you'd get it with my selective quoting but it seems to still evade you.
Look at what I quoted. You have 1.6 GB in your user's Music folder. The system finds 1.6 GB of Music... doesn't take a Wizard to figure it out. I thought you'd get it with my selective quoting but it seems to still evade you.
I think what he may still be confused about is the 15.41 GB of audio reported in the graphic. Again, this could be anything since the graphic looks all over the drive and if it finds audio files, it will report them. It does not mean that they are in iTunes or in the music directory. The user has a lot of stuff on the desktop and in the documents folder and I assume that the streaming services he uses store files locally on his computer as well (which would explain the size of the Library folder). Anyway, this is becoming exasperating to explain.
You have to admit that if it is a coincidence that his user's Music folder is 1.6G big and the system reports 1.6G of Music, then it's a darn convenient coincidence right.
Unless he means he doesn't understand what the system means by him having 1.6G under the Music folder, which well, like you've said is all the iTunes data, not just music, except for iOS OS updates (which are under Library/iTunes).
lol.You have to admit that if it is a coincidence that his user's Music folder is 1.6G big and the system reports 1.6G of Music, then it's a darn convenient coincidence right.
I think there are three points of confusion for the user.
1. 15 GBs of audio files in the graphic.
2. 1.6 GBs of "stuff" in the music folder
3. No music in iTunes
I am only patient enough to explain this once to the user, before I start getting sarcastic.
heh. I think we can agree that the user is confused. No further comments.
heh. I think we can agree that the user is confused. No further comments.
Seeing how we now have 2 threads on this topic (Apple's new "What is eating up your space bar graph!") in this forum and probably tons more around the net, I think we can safely say this feature was ill-thought out.
lol.
I think there are three points of confusion for the user.
1. 15 GBs of audio files in the graphic.
2. 1.6 GBs of "stuff" in the music folder
3. No music in iTunes
I am only patient enough to explain this once to the user, before I start getting sarcastic.
heh. I think we can agree that the user is confused. No further comments.
I'm not confused, I understand what everyone is saying. What I don't understand is how can there be such a large difference between what the system reports through Terminal and what the bar graph is showing?
As for the 'Mobile Applications' folder in iTunes - it has 4 apps, all of which I doubt sum up to 15GB. iTunes is completely empty of any music, apps, podcasts, iTunes U or whatever.
@KnightWRX I got what you were trying to say but you weren't listening to what I initially wrote - THERE IS NO MUSIC ON THIS LAPTOP, NOT ONE ******** SONG. If there is no music, how can there be 1.6GB of music?
Is it the GarageBand loops? The startup chime? It has to be something!
Hum... Terminal is not telling you there's 1.6G of music, du doesn't know the type of files it sees. It's telling you you have 1.6G under the Music sub-folder in your User's home directory.
This can be music, it can be movies, heck it can be 1.6G of 0s stored in files. du only sees files that use up space and tell you where these files are.
The bar graph and the terminal report the same thing, except the bar graph goes 1 step further and tries to evaluate the types of the files.
Open Finder and go into the Music sub-folder in your user's home directory, you'll see what is taking up 1.6G there.
What does
Code:
sudo du -akx / | sort -nr | head -20go into your Music folder the terminal says you have 1.6GB of stuff in there
Hi all,
Got my new MBA 13" i7 this Monday, installed 10.7.1 yesterday. After that the free disk space started to disappear. I haven't downloaded anything or created any new files since. Time Machine is turned off. There was a 3gb decrease in one day.
The only thing I've installed on my MBA is Onyx. Running Onyx maintenance and cleaning scripts helps. I instantly gained a couple of gbs of free space.
Before running Onyx
and after
So clearly there is something wrong with Lion.
Got my new MBA 13" i7 this Monday, installed 10.7.1 yesterday. After that the free disk space started to disappear. I haven't downloaded anything or created any new files since. Time Machine is turned off. There was a 3gb decrease in one day.
The only thing I've installed on my MBA is Onyx. Running Onyx maintenance and cleaning scripts helps. I instantly gained a couple of gbs of free space.
Before running Onyx
and after
So clearly there is something wrong with Lion.
Empathy
I had the same thing happen to me right after purchasing my MBA (3,1) last November. I was going nuts because, like you, I had only transferred a minimum of my iTunes library and a few miscellaneous apps and photos. It turns out I had a log file that had grown to 96GB (!!!). I took a screen capture of the results but I can't seem to find it. Anyway, I wasn't able to find this with Finder searches, I ended up using WhatSize and that found it for me.
I was pretty nervous about deleting the file but I could not find anything on the internet about what it did so...I trashed it and all has been well since! I will dig around some more, if I can find that screenshot I will post it so you can see what I'm talking about. In the meantime, I would suggest using WhatSize or a similar app to try and sort this out. Hope this helps!
I had the same thing happen to me right after purchasing my MBA (3,1) last November. I was going nuts because, like you, I had only transferred a minimum of my iTunes library and a few miscellaneous apps and photos. It turns out I had a log file that had grown to 96GB (!!!). I took a screen capture of the results but I can't seem to find it. Anyway, I wasn't able to find this with Finder searches, I ended up using WhatSize and that found it for me.
I was pretty nervous about deleting the file but I could not find anything on the internet about what it did so...I trashed it and all has been well since! I will dig around some more, if I can find that screenshot I will post it so you can see what I'm talking about. In the meantime, I would suggest using WhatSize or a similar app to try and sort this out. Hope this helps!