Only 39GB available on 300GB drive, but only 31GB being used...
Hello.
I have an old 300GB hard drive from the old white iBook G4 lap top.
I used it as an external drive.
When i Get Info on this drive from my Power Mac G5 quad, it reads: capacity 232.76GB, available 39.15GB, used 193.61GB
When i Get Info on this drive from my Mac Air....................it reads: capacity 249.93GB, available 42.04GB, used 207.89GB
That is a bit confusing, though i don't see it as too much of an issue.
My issue it that there are only 3 folders on this hard drive which total about 30GB only.
(One computer (G5) says that the 3 folders add up to a total of 31.79GB, and the other computer (Mac Air) says that the 3 folders add up to a total of 29.65GB)
Now, regardless of this discrepancy (which i do want to find out why), I should still have at least 198GB available on this HD.
So, i launched Omni Disk Sweeper, and it says that 193.6GB are used on this HD (on the "Drive List" window before I do the actual sweep), and after I sweep this drive, it says that only 27.7GB are used on this drive, and it shows the breakdown of the 3 folders on this drive.
I'm just wondering how I'm using 193GB on this drive.
Any thoughts?
Thank you!!!
Hello, the dicrepency between the to is due to apple switching to 1K = 1,000 Bytes instead of the old 1K = 1,024 Bytes... as I recall they changed it in 10.6.x
OK, now the missing GBs.
We either have hidden folders/files on the drive and/or Permissions on them betond your right's.
See WZZZ's post here on how to run ODS in root mode...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2703600?start=0&tstart=0
Open the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities). Copy the following line and paste it directly into the Terminal window, then type Return:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Enter your admin password when prompted (it will not echo on the screen), and type Return.
This should open OmniDiskSweeper's "Drive List" window. Click inside it and then sweep your HD as you did before. This time OmniDiskSweeper should run with "root" privileges - see what you get this way.
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