Storage problems (maybe virus) Need help very bad...

[WilliamGW]

Hello, I'm William 17 and from Denmark so sorry for bad english in advance.

As you can see on the attached file, my storage is completely ****ed. It makes no sense, i just cleared up my mac from all my Gopro videos and it still shows that i have no storage. And literally right before i took the screenshot of my storage half of the blue storage was yellow. How can it suddently changes, im so worried right now, looks like a virus. I srsly need some help quick, i made a thread before with the same problem but not with the yellow storage suddenly turning blue and all the help i got was to re-index the spotlight and i dont know how to do that.... I will be so thankful if someone can help me out.. I'm freaking out right now because i think i got virus..

+ yesterday i had 6gb to use, and now i have like 500mb and i haven't downloaded anything. Makes no sense

 

[cruisin]

Did you empty the trash? Did you restart? Is there a update that downloaded and is waiting for installation?

Sometimes if you are low on ram OSX will borrow hard drive space (swap space). Open Activity Monitor and check how much memory you are using and how much swap is in use.

You can use an app to scan for things to remove: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simplecleaner/id867373024?mt=12

Reindexing: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716

 

[simonsi]

Just empty trash and reboot, highly likely it will be resolved...

 

[CoastalOR]

There is a bug in Yosemite that can cause the Storage display to be incorrect. To correct the Storage display you will need to reindex Spotlight to fix the Storage readout.
Run the below command in Terminal to reindex Spotlight:

sudo mdutil -E /

Be patient it can take awhile.

 

[WilliamGW]

Hello, I'm William 17 and from Denmark so sorry for bad english in advance.

As you can see on the attached file, my storage is completely ****ed. It makes no sense, i just cleared up my mac from all my Gopro videos and it still shows that i have no storage. And literally right before i took the screenshot of my storage half of the blue storage was yellow. How can it suddently changes, im so worried right now, looks like a virus. I srsly need some help quick, i made a thread before with the same problem but not with the yellow storage suddenly turning blue and all the help i got was to re-index the spotlight and i dont know how to do that.... I will be so thankful if someone can help me out.. I'm freaking out right now because i think i got virus..

+ yesterday i had 6gb to use, and now i have like 500mb and i haven't downloaded anything. Makes no sense

Woke up to this without doing anything:

 

[Samuelsan2001]

Turn off time machine.

 

[maflynn]

The blue is most likely local snapshots that are caused when you are using Time Machine. You can turn that feature off (and keep Time Machine on) by issuing this command
In the terminal type:
sudo tmutil disablelocal