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Missing Hard Drive Space

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trevorlsciact

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Feb 6, 2007
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OK this isn't a huge deal (NOT) since I have 37 GB free, but...

232.5 GB HD, 37.57 GB free, but when i add up the values of each folder
Applications:6.72 GB
Developer: 4.58 GB
Library: 12.14
System: 4.17
Users: 66.18

I get: 93.79 GB. so there is about 138.71 GB of missing space (when i check the info on the hard drive is says I'm using allot more, but i know this isn't so)

What is causing this? And how can I get my GB's back? iMac 20" intel core duo 2GHz running the latest Leopard, but had the problem since tiger.
 
Do you have more than one user? If you check the space used on the Users folder, it will only give you your current user, the shared user, and I think any apps directory that might be inside the other users folders. It won't give you the full space used for them.
 
Using the Get Info additions like you did, I got 11 GB unaccounted for.
 
Sorry if this is stupid obvious, but have you emptied the Trash? If you put something in the trash but don't empty it, that something is still taking up hard drive space.

There is another possibility, but it will involve using the command line. I once found a bunch of space that I couldn't account for. When I was defragging (which I do b/c I play with giant HD video files) I saw the file names being moved, and they were hidden copies of things I had deleted or moved to an external drive. I don't know why there were still there. If you're comfortable with the command line try poking around in some of the low level directories and see if there is anything in there that shouldn't be there.

Good luck.
 
Missing 80 GB!

My HD has a capacity of 152.5 GB.
According to the "Get Info" 144.2 GB is being used.

Like the previous poster experienced, the sum of the individual folders in HD (about 60 GB) does not total the amount "Used."

I used Disk Inventory X. Same thing. First screen says 144.2 GB used. Click on the HD and the break down adds up to 62 GB.

I went into all users and emptied the trash.

Where's my 80 GB??
 
You could have many cache files created (they may be invisible) or have a problem with the disk directory structure (bad inode count).

Have you run Disk Utility and run a Disk Verify to see if there are any problems with the structure?

You can do a "Safe Boot" which will run a file system check and repair (fsck in Unix) and clean out some of those cache files.

You can also use the utility Onyx to do some maintenance on your disk

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070&vid=501083&mode=info

HTH
 
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