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MacBook Pro hard drive usage
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I counted all the folders on the hard drive, not just the ones in my user folder.
No partitions. And don't hidden files still show up in the folder size sums? Is there something funny... For some reason I recall something about RAM taking up space so that it can be written there when the computer goes to sleep. Am I making that up?
Sorry for the silly question. This one has just been bugging me for a while. I get the feeling that this is laptop-specific because it didn't happen on my Mac Pro...
You got it! OK, so I measured the size of the root folder, and found a couple of large hidden folders. Spot on! 1 GB is in ./usr and 7 GB are in ./private. What is in those folders?
Hi Everyone,
I have a similar concern. I have a brand new white MB with an advertised 120 GB HD. However, when I go to "About this Mac" it indicates that the HD capacity is actually 111.79 GB. Why is there this discrepancy?
More troubling is that I currently have 87 GB free on the HD. The only things I have installed are MS Office and some Garage Band files. Nothing on the order of 10's of GB.
I understand that OS X takes up some room, but it seems like 1/4 of my HD is gone without me ever really using this computer. Any ideas on what is up?
Thanks.
Mike
I have a similar concern. I have a brand new white MB with an advertised 120 GB HD. However, when I go to "About this Mac" it indicates that the HD capacity is actually 111.79 GB. Why is there this discrepancy?
More troubling is that I currently have 87 GB free on the HD. The only things I have installed are MS Office and some Garage Band files. Nothing on the order of 10's of GB.
I understand that OS X takes up some room, but it seems like 1/4 of my HD is gone without me ever really using this computer. Any ideas on what is up?
Thanks.
Mike
That is completely normal. I have heard a few reasons why it is displayed that way, but it has something to do with the file system or it just being rounded up. About 111 gigs is normal, it's not os x specific, windows does it as well.
As forthe ten gigs "missing", I could see garage band taking up that much space, along side os x and ms office.
Use a program like Grand Perspective and see for yourself what's taking up the space. Do you use bittorrent? Lots of bittorrent clients create large dummy files when you first start downloading them.