[macOS 10.12.6] Finder is reporting incorrect free space available

[nilcoalescingoperator]

I *just* deleted over 40GB of files. Finder is now reporting 2.49 GB of free space and I'm getting the "Your Disk Is Full" alert. I've rebooted. Disk Utility checks out fine. Any ideas?

EDIT: This is on a 2012 MBP 15" Retina with a 512 GB SSD btw.

 

[Kissmyne]

Reindex Spotlight Search. Go to System Preferences>Spotlight, Click Privacy, Click +, Select your boot drive. Click choose. Wait a moment. Then remove it from the list by selecting your boot drive in the list and clicking the -. Finder pulls reported space from Spotlight.

Theres also a way of doing this in terminal.. but I don't remember that off the cuff..

 

[robeddie]

Run DiskWarrior. It still does a better job at fixing these kinds of things than apple disk utility.

 

[nilcoalescingoperator]

Reindex Spotlight Search. Go to System Preferences>Spotlight, Click Privacy, Click +, Select your boot drive. Click choose. Wait a moment. Then remove it from the list by selecting your boot drive in the list and clicking the -. Finder pulls reported space from Spotlight.

Theres also a way of doing this in terminal.. but I don't remember that off the cuff..

I forgot to mention that I had tried that too.

 

[Bruno09]

Just in case : did you empty the trash ?

 

[entropi]

That's HFS+ for you! Get a program which can rebuild volume structures, like tech tool pro (or diskwarrior?). Invaluable to have in the toolbox!

 

[nilcoalescingoperator]

That's HFS+ for you! Get a program which can rebuild volume structures, like tech tool pro (or diskwarrior?). Invaluable to have in the toolbox!

Do you know if APFS will fix this?

 

[robeddie]

seriously, just run DiskWarrior. I'll bet you just about anything that program will fix your problem.