Storage space help please?

[Peter Franks]

I have an extra volume on my High Sierra for OCLP Monterey, I was down to 50GB of the 500GB before the patch, which was used for the OCLP Monterey boot, and the install left me with only 14GB, so....

... in iTunes on High Sierra, I got rid of 60GB of movies and music. But.... I'm still sitting on 14GB of the 500GB drive on both drives. Nothing has budged, I don't get it. Any idea where it went, why, and how it's not giving me any space since the dual boot? Thanks

 

[Bigwaff]

in iTunes on High Sierra, I got rid of 60GB of movies and music.

How did “get rid off” the files? In iTunes? In Finder? Empty Trash?

 

[Peter Franks]

How did “get rid off” the files? In iTunes? In Finder? Empty Trash?

Funny you should say that …. Historically it’s always asked if I want to move to trash, or keep files, but there was no option for the movies like that, just delete, but they didn’t go to trash bin. I spent hours looking for files for movies, iTunes Media etc etc but there aren’t any folders for that now, just the remaining music folders.

 

[!!!]

but there was no option for the movies like that, just delete, but they didn’t go to trash bin. I spent hours looking for files for movies, iTunes Media etc etc but there aren’t any folders for that now, just the remaining music folders.

If the videos really are downloaded, then it doesn't give you the trash option because they are stored somewhere outside of the normal iTunes Library location, and iTunes won't delete them off the disk in that scenario.

If the videos were already deleted from the drive without being removed from the iTunes Library database, then deleting them will similarly result in it not asking if you want to trash the files.

 

[Peter Franks]

If the videos really are downloaded, then it doesn't give you the trash option because they are stored somewhere outside of the normal iTunes Library location, and iTunes won't delete them off the disk in that scenario.

If the videos were already deleted from the drive without being removed from the iTunes Library database, then deleting them will similarly result in it not asking if you want to trash the files.

I initially drag and dropped them into the Home Movies, where else can they be stored?

I think this problem is more than just those movies now. The two OS one of which is the OCLP are sharing 500gb volume. I've deleted so much that I've left myself with a clean install of OCLP Monterey, and bare bones on the supported High Sierra volume. Still it only shows 220 available. I can't believe the bare bones of HS and clean install of Monterey need 280GB. Maybe it's an OCLP hidden file thing.

 

[!!!]

I initially drag and dropped them into the Home Movies, where else can they be stored?

In their original location, if you have iTunes set up to not copy the files.

I think this problem is more than just those movies now. The two OS one of which is the OCLP are sharing 500gb volume. I've deleted so much that I've left myself with a clean install of OCLP Monterey, and bare bones on the supported High Sierra volume. Still it only shows 220 available. I can't believe the bare bones of HS and clean install of Monterey need 280GB. Maybe it's an OCLP hidden file thing.

Do you have Time Machine set up, and are there leftover snapshots you could delete? Have you used something like OmniDiskSweeper to check what's using the space?

 

[Bigwaff]

Version of High Sierra APFS is old. It is APFS first release. In fact, HS won't know what to do with Monterey APFS volume. Refrain from using any of the respective macOS version disk utilities on the others' APFS volume. You risk borking the volume. Boot HS, delete stuff or do stuff, empty Trash. Boot OCLP Monterey, delete stuff or do stuff, empty Trash. When looking as free space on disk, I would trust Monterey's interpretation.

 

[Peter Franks]

In their original location, if you have iTunes set up to not copy the files.

Do you have Time Machine set up, and are there leftover snapshots you could delete? Have you used something like OmniDiskSweeper to check what's using the space?

I looked in Disk Utility and it says 0 snapshots. I did download that Omni, but it was no help tbh. I used Terminal that listed the mobile stuff as 90GB as the heaviest user, back up of iPad and iPhone, but that doesn't account for why 300GB is used by two very basic systems. I saw Mr Mac do this on YouTube with like a 120GB drive. Don't use TM no. Thanks

Version of High Sierra APFS is old. It is APFS first release. In fact, HS won't know what to do with Monterey APFS volume. Refrain from using any of the respective macOS version disk utilities on the others' APFS volume. You risk borking the volume. Boot HS, delete stuff or do stuff, empty Trash. Boot OCLP Monterey, delete stuff or do stuff, empty Trash. When looking as free space on disk, I would trust Monterey's interpretation.

They both give the same capacity reads, but the only reason I use HS is for older apps, that I still need.
So you mean don't tinker with the OS' Disk Utility of the one you're not logged into. Thanks