I just broke my Mac Mini out of the box and all that I put on there so far is 3GB of my music. but it says out of the 500GB hard drive, only 481GB is left. Is this normal? Is the 14GB all the operating system?
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New Mac Mini already using up 17GB?
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GGJstudios
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No. It's the OS and preinstalled apps. Use Disk Inventory X or Grand Perspective to see how space is being used on your drive.
And keep in mind, 500GB is the UNFORMATTED size. Once you format it, and the "recovery" section is put on there, you' probably only have like 490GB free to install the OS and the other pre-installed stuff and your 3GB of music...
Plus, it won't have been 500GB after it had been formatted. It's all lies...!!!
Could be worse. When my 128GB SSD was formatted, it fell in capacity to 121.9GB. It's not like I had truckloads of space to begin with, man...
simsaladimbamba
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Unless you downloaded the Intel (Universal Binary) version of DIX, that application will not work on Lion.
OmniDisk Sweeper and GrandPerspective will work though.
For determining what is eating disk space, add a hibernate image file (/var/vm/sleepimage) equal in size to your installed RAM.
Thanks everyone. Turns out a lot of the data that was being used was my iTunes Data. Problem Solved. Thanks again for everybody's help!
