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Merode

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Nov 5, 2013
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Warsaw, Poland
I'm pretty new to Macs, and I'm still learning OS X. Just recently I noticed something strange.

When I open:

<Apple logo> -> About this Mac -> More information -> Mass storage

(I'm not using english version of OS so these names might be different) it tells me that programs take up 40GB of space.

On the other hand, when I select "Programs" catalogue and choose to display information about it, it tells me that the catalogue takes up 18.4GB of space.

It's 21.6GB of difference - wow! What might be the reason why? Maybe it's just my misconception that both values should be at least similar?
 
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