Storage Question

[Knowy74]

All I have installed on My Mac are the preinstalled + Skype. When I go to About->Storage, it shows that apps are using 42gb of storage. But when I go into Finder>Applications and get info on all apps, it shows that I am only using 8GB for apps. Anybody ever experienced this or know how to fix it?

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Also under About This Mac it says that there is 97GB free out of 121GB. I'm so confused.

 

[motrek]

All I have installed on My Mac are the preinstalled + Skype. When I go to About->Storage, it shows that apps are using 42gb of storage. But when I go into Finder>Applications and get info on all apps, it shows that I am only using 8GB for apps. Anybody ever experienced this or know how to fix it?

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Also under About This Mac it says that there is 97GB free out of 121GB. I'm so confused.

Those About screens are known to be very unreliable.

You can download a shareware utility called Disk Inventory X and it will give you a nice display of what's taking up your storage space.

 

[Weaselboy]

All I have installed on My Mac are the preinstalled + Skype. When I go to About->Storage, it shows that apps are using 42gb of storage. But when I go into Finder>Applications and get info on all apps, it shows that I am only using 8GB for apps. Anybody ever experienced this or know how to fix it?

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Also under About This Mac it says that there is 97GB free out of 121GB. I'm so confused.

Run this command in Terminal to reindex Spotlight and it will fix that incorrect readout.

sudo mdutil -E /

 

[edjs]

About->Storage may be including app-related stuff from the Library folder in the Apps total.