Macbook Pro Retina - Weird Weird issues

[MishalGunner]

Hey guys

Long time lurker, first post!

I got the rMBP, with mountain lion preinstalled - the base model

It's great, and I've not had any of the issues people are reporting, apart from the lag.

However, something very strange is happening:

When I go to about my mac and check the storage, my music doesn't seem to show up as audio? Also, it says I have 18 EB of movies??? thats not a spelling error - it says EB instead of GB (I'm attaching a screenshot).

The allocation of things don't seem to be correct at all... it's very confusing, as I'm not having any issues on the front end.

I also updated to 10.8.2 today morning, and it doesn't seem to have fixed this weird problem.

On a side note - should I reset my SMC now after the update? The Macbook seems to run a little hotter now than before?


Thanks Guys

 

[MishalGunner]

Missing HD Space

I used Disk Inventory, and I seem to be missing some HD space

Please look at the attached image (screenshot 2) - my HD should only be about 70 GB - why is the about my mac saying that I'm using over a 100 (see post above for screenshot 1)

 

[GGJstudios]

If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion/ML storage tab is about, this may help explain:

What is this "Other" in the storage tab? What is eating my space​

For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:

• Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.
  
  
• For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion or later, space may be consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled.
  
  OS X: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs​
  
  
• Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
  
  
• Check the System Memory tab in Activity Monitor to check page outs and swap used. If swap used is significant, restart your computer and track that value under your normal workload. If you have significant page outs under normal use, you could benefit from more RAM.
  
  
• Search with Finder to see if the space is being consumed by a very large file or several large files. Adjust the 50GB in the illustration to whatever size you deem appropriate.
  
  
• Use OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report, Disk Inventory X, DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to see how space is being used on your drive. Some of these apps may show more detail than others, so try several.
  
  
• Check your drive with Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
  
  
• Try re-indexing your drive: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes

Here are a few resolutions found by others with the same question:

• Encrypted drive
• Time Machine backup files and needed disk repair
• App filling log file
• App or file was 89GB
• Drive needed to be re-indexed
• Time Machine backup file
• Large app cache file
• Garageband files and video podcasts
• Oversized email being duplicated
• Another email issue

Freeing up space in Mac OS X

How OS X and iOS report storage capacity

 

[MishalGunner]

Thanks

Thanks for the info

Still not clear on:

1. why it says EB and not GB.

Tried repairing and verifying disk, nothing seems to be helping.

Sorry for being so incompetent - thanks for your help!!!

 

[GGJstudios]

Still not clear on:

1. why it says EB and not GB.

Looks like a bug.

18.45EB movies on 500GB HDD?
Confusing Storage Statistics
More hard drive space after Time Machine restore?
One quintillion bytes?
About this mac?

 

[MishalGunner]

You're a genius!!!!

I did the Terminal prompt for the time machine backup - and it saved me nearly 60 gigs!!!!!!!! YAYYY!

Still 2 issues:

1. Why does it still say Movies 18 EB - what does EB mean?

2. My audio files on itunes are showing up as other, and not as music


You guys are amazing! Thanks

 

[GGJstudios]

1. Why does it still say Movies 18 EB - what does EB mean?

As I said in my last post, it's a bug. EB = Exabyte = 1 million terabytes.

2. My audio files on itunes are showing up as other, and not as music

What format are the music files?

 

[theSeb]

18 Exabytes of porn?

 

[MishalGunner]

Thanks!

1.
Music files are mp3's - when I bought my new mac, i just transferred my itunes folder to an external, and then dragged the files into iTunes, and the music works fine - seems to be categorized wrong.

Is there any way to fix this?


2.
Regarding the EB bug - thanks for the info, makes sense now - however, am I the only one who has this? Is there any risk of my hardware being below par? Seems a bit sketchy to me -- pretty small yet scary bug to have.

 

[GGJstudios]

Music files are mp3's - when I bought my new mac, i just transferred my itunes folder to an external, and then dragged the files into iTunes, and the music works fine - seems to be categorized wrong.

Is there any way to fix this?

I wouldn't worry about it. It doesn't affect functionality.

Regarding the EB bug - thanks for the info, makes sense now - however, am I the only one who has this?

Did you read my post and the links to other threads where this has been reported? No, you're not the only one, and, like the other issue, it doesn't affect functionality... it's just a flaw in the reporting. I wouldn't worry about either one. Just enjoy your Mac.

 

[Weaselboy]

Regarding the EB bug - thanks for the info, makes sense now - however, am I the only one who has this? Is there any risk of my hardware being below par? Seems a bit sketchy to me -- pretty small yet scary bug to have.

It is not just you. Here is mine. Looks like a bug in Mountain Lion.

 

[MishalGunner]

Solution

Guys,

There is a simple solution for this:

1. Go to Spotlight Preferences, and go to Privacy

Add your Mac HD and then remove it

Spotlight will reindex your HD and everything should be normal again, it was for me!

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Source:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4129912?start=0&tstart=0

 

[Weaselboy]

Guys,

There is a simple solution for this:

1. Go to Spotlight Preferences, and go to Privacy

Add your Mac HD and then remove it

Spotlight will reindex your HD and everything should be normal again, it was for me!

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Source:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4129912?start=0&tstart=0

I reindexed Spotlight a few days ago for another reason and it did not fix this issue for me.

 

[MishalGunner]

Hmmm... That's strange

We have 3 Macs in the house (Pros: Wife, Me, and an iMac)

All 3 were exhibiting this strange behaviour, but the above fix worked on all 3 machines (the iMac is slightly older and Macbooks 2012)

I followed the instructions in the "source" thread to the letter and it worked perfectly, may take a couple of attempts to fix - on my rMPB I had to run the procedure twice, and then finally it took about 5 minutes to reindex my spotlight, and viola, it fixed everything

 

[Weaselboy]

Hmmm... That's strange

We have 3 Macs in the house (Pros: Wife, Me, and an iMac)

All 3 were exhibiting this strange behaviour, but the above fix worked on all 3 machines (the iMac is slightly older and Macbooks 2012)

I followed the instructions in the "source" thread to the letter and it worked perfectly, may take a couple of attempts to fix - on my rMPB I had to run the procedure twice, and then finally it took about 5 minutes to reindex my spotlight, and viola, it fixed everything

I just did it a second time and it worked! Thanks for the tip.