SSD missing space

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  1. sbouafif, Jan 15, 2012
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    sbouafif macrumors newbie

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    Hello all!

    I've got a 2011' MBP a few month ago with a 128Go SSD.

    This morning my SSD was full and I deleted some files. Then I checked the info of the SSD which says :
    Capacity: 120.47 GB
    Available: 12.54 GB

    which is good (data = 100GB). But when I use Daisy Disk or sums up the "Get Info" of the folders in the SSD I end up with 62GB of data.

    So I cleaned up everything with CCleaner, I stopped the local Time Machine backups (I think it was already stopped), I stopped the Sleep Option (in order to delete the sleep image and save 4GB). I rebooted. And I had the same problem. When I checked the info of the SSD I have :
    Capacity: 120.47 GB
    Available: 17.03 GB

    Here's the screens :
    - Daisydisk: http://cl.ly/2h1r2s2h1c0z342V3j38
    - "sudo du -hs /" in terminal: http://cl.ly/2i0d423i1u1T0I2t3l2B
    - SSD quick look: http://cl.ly/3O3l1f2u243124133F29
    - Get Info of all folders in /: http://cl.ly/45111Q1g3g0x0R2G2x1T

    As you can see there is around 45GB of data missing/lost between the occupied space from a quick look and the total of all the folders.

    Can someone explain me what can it be?

    Thank you

    PS: Sorry for my English, not my native language.
     
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  2. thundersteele, Jan 15, 2012

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    Can you post a screenshot of

    About this mac -> more info -> Storage
     
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  3. sbouafif, Jan 15, 2012

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  4. maflynn, Jan 15, 2012

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    Use OmniDiskSweeper to scan your hard drive and provide a sorted list of files/folders
     
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  5. sbouafif, Jan 15, 2012

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  6. bdodds1985, Jan 15, 2012

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    and im guessing you rebooted multiple times already?

    i dont know how this happens to so many people.
     
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  7. sbouafif, Jan 15, 2012

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    Yes I rebooted a few times.
     
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  8. bdodds1985, Jan 15, 2012

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    wierd. sometimes it seems like a lion thing to me honestly. like it takes a while to catch up. because before i reinstalled my OS and disabled local snapshots i was noticing an increases "other" bar in the about this mac as well.

    try this Onyx

    run the sweep and clean everything out then reboot. I use this app all the time
     
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  9. sbouafif, Jan 15, 2012

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    I'm afraid nothing changed :/

    Should I go to an Apple Store?
     
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  10. bdodds1985, Jan 15, 2012

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    if all these have failed I would say yes, have someone look at it.
     
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  11. thundersteele, Jan 15, 2012

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    Sorry, I have no clue what is going on. Solutions would be either to have someone look at it or to wipe & format the SSD, reinstall Lion and restore the system from backup. Check the size of the backup before restoring!

    Did you try to partition recently?
     
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  12. theSeb, Jan 15, 2012

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    Have you tried running Verify Disk in Disk Utility?

    Also can you tell me what df -h prints out in terminal?

    and

    sudo du -d1 -h /
     
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  13. sbouafif, Jan 15, 2012

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    The SSD seems ok. I did not try to partition or format it.

    df -h
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
    /dev/disk0s2 112Gi 109Gi 2.7Gi 98% /
    devfs 183Ki 183Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
    map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /net
    map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /home

    sudo du -d1 -h /
    1.5M /.DocumentRevisions-V100
    6.6M /.fseventsd
    548M /.Spotlight-V100
    0B /.Trashes
    0B /.vol
    11G /Applications
    3.7M /bin
    0B /cores
    4.5K /dev
    3.3G /Developer
    1.0K /home
    4.5G /Library
    1.0K /net
    0B /Network
    3.0G /private
    2.3M /sbin
    2.6G /System
    42G /Users
    1.3G /usr
    4.0K /Volumes
    69G /
     
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  14. thundersteele, Jan 15, 2012

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    I'm starting to consider the possibility that the SSD is broken. Any Apple store nearby?
     
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  15. sbouafif, Jan 16, 2012

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    Yes.

    I will go there in the next days.

    Thank you :)
     
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  16. maflynn, Jan 16, 2012

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    Agreed, given that the OP has exhausted all possible causes and possible solutions. The next step is have apple look at it.
     
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  17. FloSam, Mar 6, 2012

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    Running into the same problem

    Hi, I have exactly the same problem. Did you find any solution? Wonder if it's connected with full disk encryption?
     
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  18. Aragornii, Mar 7, 2012

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    I had the same problem recently and solved it using Repair Disk in Disk Utility. You will need to boot from your recovery partition to do so. Should work like a charm unless your drive is failing.
     
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  19. shardey, Mar 8, 2012

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    Try grand perspective. It displays all the files on a map according to size. It helps find a lot of large unnecessary files.
     
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  20. dusk007, Mar 9, 2012

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    If all else fails I would just copy with ccc the whole drive to the external.
    Reformat and copy back.
     
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