A friend asked me to try to figure out why her MBP hard drive is nearly full. I went ahead and found the file sizes for the major folders that I could think of and had the following results:
Applications- 5.1 GB
Library- 11.1 GB
Music- 47GB
Photos- 8.2GB
Movies- 1GB
That all made sense... however the HD was still showing that she only had 20GB remaining on her 120GB drive. Then I noticed that the Users folder rang in at 63GB. The contents of the folder are basically the above mentioned folders (The sum of Music, Photos, Movies is 56GB). It almost seems as if it is counting them twice. Is that the case? It seems to me that between the user folder and the content folders that is the whole drive less 20GB, how can that be?
Has anyone else noticed this and if yes do you have any suggestions as to how to reclaim the disk space?
Thanks.
Applications- 5.1 GB
Library- 11.1 GB
Music- 47GB
Photos- 8.2GB
Movies- 1GB
That all made sense... however the HD was still showing that she only had 20GB remaining on her 120GB drive. Then I noticed that the Users folder rang in at 63GB. The contents of the folder are basically the above mentioned folders (The sum of Music, Photos, Movies is 56GB). It almost seems as if it is counting them twice. Is that the case? It seems to me that between the user folder and the content folders that is the whole drive less 20GB, how can that be?
Has anyone else noticed this and if yes do you have any suggestions as to how to reclaim the disk space?
Thanks.