Macbook air storage problem

[flizen]

hello,
i have a problem with the storage of my macbook air. When i open the menu for storage it says that programs take 209,46 GB. But i only got a storage of120,11 GB. So i am a little bit confused right now. Is this just an error?

 

[kage207]

Are you sure it doesn't say 20.96GB? Or how about a screen shot?

 

[flizen]

Are you sure it doesn't say 20.96GB? Or how about a screen shot?

yes, got a screenshot

 

[flizen]

lol, just checked again. It now says 244 GB. 😕

 

[kage207]

Honestly, it looks like one of your programs may be writing a file in a loop causing it to continue to take up space. You should check your background processes for a program that is writing to your file system or wipe your computer.

Something looks really wrong.

 

[omgitscro]

The "About this Mac" window does not give reliable storage estimates.

Your Mac is fine. Try running diskutil from Terminal to check your free space.

 

[Weaselboy]

yes, got a screenshot

That screen gets data from Spotlight and when the Spotlight index is corrupted it will read incorrectly like yours is. Run the command below in Terminal to reindex Spotlight and that will fix it.

Give it some time to complete the reindex.

sudo mdutil -E /

 

[flizen]

That screen gets data from Spotlight and when the Spotlight index is corrupted it will read incorrectly like yours is. Run the command below in Terminal to reindex Spotlight and that will fix it.

Give it some time to complete the reindex.

sudo mdutil -E /

Yess, thank you. It worked 🙂

 

[Jonel2014]

MacBook Air Storage Problem (i.e. "Other")

Why do I have big storage for the "other" component? It consumes more than 100gb. How can I get rid of that?? Pls help me...

 

[Weaselboy]

Why do I have big storage for the "other" component? It consumes more than 100gb. How can I get rid of that?? Pls help me...

Other would be the OS itself and anything that does not fall into one of the other categories. If 100GB for that sounds high for you, the Spotlight index may be corrupted like I mentioned earlier and you will need to run the Terminal command I posted to fix it.