Missing Files

[Narked Diver]

Hi,

I'm trying to clean up my wife's MBP before upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite

When I do a get info on her hard drive it tells me that 180 Gb have been used

There are 4 folders shown in finder on her hard drive

Users = 153 Gb
Application = 10 Gb
Library = 9 Gb
System = 6 Gb

So that's a total of around 178 Gb

Any idea where u should look for the other 2 Gb ?

 

[Fishrrman]

Quite frankly -- so long as you see "everything there that is supposed to be there" -- don't worry about it.

 

[Gregg2]

Rounding?

 

[Bruno09]

There are 4 folders shown in finder on her hard drive

Users = 153 Gb
Application = 10 Gb
Library = 9 Gb
System = 6 Gb

These are the 4 folders you can see.

There are ~24 items more, which are hidden.

Hence the difference.

 

[Narked Diver]

These are the 4 folders you can see.

There are ~24 more items, which are hidden.

Hence the difference.

Thanks - is there any way to display the hidden files? The reason for asking is that I can only find around 125 Gb of the 153 Gb total in the users folder. I can live with the 2Gb descrepency as its only 1% of the total disk space but a missing 28 Gb out of a 256 Gb drive seems a bit much

 

[Bruno09]

The user's Library is hidden by default.

Mine is 23.6 Gb.

In Finder, menu bar, click on the "Go" menu and press the Alt key to reveal the Library.

 

[Gregg2]

In Finder, menu bar, click on the "Go" menu and press the Alt key to reveal the Library.

If your Mac keyboard doesn't have an Alt key, go with Option. I know, it's a Windows centric world...