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Hey
I have been having a problem with my free space on my Macbook Air 120GB SSD.
Via OmniDiskSweeper i see that i am using 50GB out of a total of 120GB. Thats after a clean restart and with Time Machine disabled. But the finder says that only 50 GB is free. So where is the remaning 20GB?
Best Regards - Arthur, Copenhagen

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