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Missing Space
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i had somewhat of a similar situation but my problem was that i had a whole bunch of space being taken up by "other" data so i just erased my whole drive and reinstall osx. i tried everything to try and figure out what it was but nothing came up.
i drag and dropped everything i wanted to backup on an external because if i used time machine, it may have recreated the issue so i just cleaned the entire drive
hope this helps
i drag and dropped everything i wanted to backup on an external because if i used time machine, it may have recreated the issue so i just cleaned the entire drive
hope this helps
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
The issue is that you need to identify what the "other" space is. I use Omnidisksweeper.
There's no need to reformat and reinstall just to reduce what OX considers other space.
As for the OP since the he's only saying "help" its hard to discern what help he's looking for, especially since he included a screen shot of OmniDisksweeper.
GGJstudios
macrumors Westmere
If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion/ML storage tab is about, this may help explain:
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.
- 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
- 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
How OS X and iOS report storage capacity
when i said i tried everything to figure out what it was, i was implying that i tried to find out what the unaccounted data was. i forgot to include that the files that usually occupy "other" was already accounted for and only took up a fraction of the space
i used all the programs mentioned above and they all came up the same. so i had no other solution but to reinstall osx
