Why does my hard drive state I have used 500 gb when I have only used 280 gb?

Why does my hard drive state I have used 500 gb when I have only used approximately 280 gb?

Have you emptied your trash lately...
Also... See these links...
Apple ML = Increase Disc Space
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
See Here > Where did my Disk Space go?
And Here > The Storage Display

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My hard drive has 70.93 GB available, yet when i have more than one internet tab open, i have to force quit google chrome because 'there is no more available application memory'. How can I solve this? I have a 2009 macbook pro running on 10.6.8. I have tried updating to mavericks through the mac app store but after it downloading for a day i got an error message saying there was a problem with the download. The same thing happens if i try to update itunes or the mac app store. After research, i have also tried repairing disk permissions, but every time they do get repaired the 'repair' button still appears, i'm not sure if it's because it was unable to repair the initial problems or if it just keeps detecting new ones.

2 GBs is a minimum in which you can do many things, but not concurrently. Be very careful to not install third-party add-ons, limit the number of applications you choose to enter in Login Items, run as few applications concurrently as you demand.
I would consider adding more RAM to your computer. Your model supports 8 GBs, so I would install that.

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I understand that in Finder if I want to look at a file then it might have to wake up my external hard drive.
Why is it the case that when I perform a seemingly unrelated action - such as bringing up a dialogue box in Photoshop, viewing developer tools in Chrome, or playing the next track of a file sitting on a folder on my desktop - forces the external drive to wake up, and forces me to wait until the wakeup whilst it does so?
Yes, I want the drive to sleep as much as possible. It's only there for time machine backups which I rely on, and the less the drive is spinning the lower the chances are of the drive having an issue. So turning off "sleep when inactive" is NOT a solution.

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What happened is finder is as I described. A pale blue Volumes folder,
grayed out which I could not open in Finder. I"ll attach the screen shot of
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not seen.
Ran the command in terminal and it did not change anything. The command WAS
in the terminal screen--- when I check now it is not. see screen shot
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neal
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:13 PM, robgendreau <[email protected]>

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We are now on the third hard drive, the second in 5 months. The problem started after I dropped book on it, but no repairmen have suggested that has anything to do with it.

drop your books on it and you can crash your armature heads in the HD, ....HD are fragile.
I assume the first one died of age.....second from the book drop.......and the third?
endlightend
Hard drives don't fail often, but they do occasionally
They fail, and often, and new ones fail a LOT more than older ones (sounds silly, but logical)
Hard Drive Warning (all makes and models)
Ironically but logical, new hard drives are far more fragile than one that has been working for several months or a couple years. So beware in your thinking that a new hard drive translates into “extremely reliable”!
Hard drives suffer from high rates of what has been termed "infant mortality". Essentially this means new drives are highly prone to failing in the first few months of usage. This is because of very minor manufacturing defects or HD platter balancing, or head and armature geometry being less than perfect; and this is not immediately obvious and can quickly manifest itself once the drive is put to work.
Hard drives that survive the first few months of use without failing are likely to remain healthy for a number of years.
Generally HD are highly prone to death or corruption for a few months, then work fine for a few years, then spike in mortality starting at 3-4 years and certainly should be considered end-of-life at 5-7+ years.
The implication of this is that you should not trust a new hard drive completely (really never completely!) until it has been working perfectly for several months.
Given the second law of thermodynamics, any and all current mfg. HD will, under perfect storage conditions tend themselves to depolarization and a point will be reached, even if the HD mechanism is perfect, that the ferromagnetic read/write surface of the platter inside the HD will entropy to the point of no return for data extraction. HD life varies, but barring mechanical failure, 3-8 years typically.

Why does my hard drive switch on every so often

Why does my macs Harddrive keep switching on every so often

No - It happens when I am NOT using the computer - unless it thinks it is backing-up - but I have not set my Time machine to do this.

Why does may hard drive rattle?

About once in every ten time when I boot my iBook G3, the hard drive rattles for 1-2 minutes then the rattling stops. Everything works perfectly before, during and after the rattling. Once it stops, it stops for good (until about 10 reboots later). At all other times, the HD is silent.
I just bought this iBook on eBay. What is causing the rattle and should I be worried about this?
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What is causing the rattle and should I be worried about this?
I'm not sure what's causing the rattle, but if it were my iBook, I would be worried, yes.
When the rattle happens, I would shut down as soon as possible, then try booting into Safe Mode. This will take quite awhile longer than a normal startup because it does a file check and repair of the hard disk.
You will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up in Safe Mode, restart normally, and go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Click on the top hard drive icon in the left sidebar and note the S.M.A.R.T. status at the bottom right of the pane. What does it say?
Select the named boot volume in the left sidebar, ("Macintosh HD" unless you've renamed it). What is the hard drive capacity and how much space remains available on it? Repair permissions on it.
It is best to keep at least 5 GB of available hard drive space in order to give OS X enough room to operate smoothly.
I would strongly advise frequent backups to an external FireWire drive so as not to lose data if the hard drive fails. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
Good luck.

Why does the hard drive keep spinning up when in sleep mode?

When my iMac 27" is in sleep mode I have noticed that the hard drive spins up very regularly every 4 or 5 minutes. Also when placed in sleep, the monitor takes about 30 seconds to go black. It also wakes on its own for no apparent reason. No new software has been added, only normal updates, running Lion. Time machine backup is done every couple weeks.

Power or other problems related to unexpected system sleep, shutdown, lights or fans call for an SMC reset. Read all the steps.
Before Resetting the SMC
Try each of the following steps in this order before you reset the SMC. Test the issue after completing each troubleshooting step to determine if the issue still occurs.
Press Command + Option + Escape to force quit any application that is not responding.
Put your Mac to sleep by choosing the Apple () menu from the upper-left menu bar and then choosing Sleep. Wake the computer after it has gone to sleep.
Restart your Mac by choosing the Apple () menu from the upper-left menu bar and then choosing Restart.
Shut down your Mac by choosing the Apple () menu from the upper-left menu bar and then choosing Shut Down.
Resetting the SMC for Mac Pro, Intel-based iMac, Intel-based Mac mini, or Intel-based Xserve
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord.
Wait fifteen seconds.
Attach the computer's power cord.
Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on the computer.
If the problems persist after performing the above read the following.
Open the Terminal app - it is in your Mac's Utilities folder and looks like this
Select the entire line that follows (triple-click to select it), select Edit > Copy, and then Paste it into the Terminal window:
clear; printf '\e[3J' && echo "**** Sleep/Wake events"; egrep -i 'eep\ cau|ake\ rea' /private/var/log/system.log; echo "**** Assertions"; pmset -g assertions
Copy the text of that entire window by selecting Edit > Select All, then Edit > Copy. Paste the text in a reply to this Discussion.

Why does my hard drive suddenly fill to capacity?

MAC Pro running 10.7.5
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon / 14 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM / 320 GB HD (Stock) + 3 1TB internal drives.
It doesn't matter if I'm even using the computer. The hard drive (320GB) goes from 13GB of free space to 150MB free space and sometimes 0MB of free space and then back to 5GB then 12GB.
I've look into the messages in the console window. I see this message repeated hundreds of times.
2/12/15 9:34:22.770 AM com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud: objc[369]: Object 0x7fff7291ffb0 of class __NSCFBoolean autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug
The same with this one:
2/12/15 8:25:57.351 AM com.apple.mdworker.isolation.0: Range {0x0000, 0xFFFF} is not 1-dimensional; handling as a special case.
Any idea if these are connected to the hard drive filling up? How do I stop it?

Your OEM 320GB is old, slow, in need of upgrade, and too small!
13GB of free space to 150MB free space
A disk drive needs 10-15% free space to function, and a system boot drive should be more like 50%.
Adobe plugins will use 100GB for cache, in addition to scratch.
The price today for even 500GB (more than you need but heck at $199 they are fast and 1/10th what they cost 6 years ago)
Copy all the non-system folders to a data drive
Clone just the system to a new drive - $85 for 2TB Hitachi would be one idea or a WD Black
Might want to upgrade your 1TB drives over time, and replace one with a drive large enough for TimeMachine - 350% the capacity for all the drives and volumes and system you might need.
System drive should have 'ample' free space, no media or user data or graphic libraries, and keep the system to a minimum, the fewer processes the better in terms of stability and performance.
At this point I wonder what log is filling the drive, maybe printer or error messages, but that the drive's directory is no longer valid or integrity and even disk repair may not be enough.
Adobe has always done better with more RAM, 24-32GB "sweet spot" even along with scratch - and because disk saves are slow and single threaded, fast storage for projects.
A Samsung XP941 ($250 + $25 adapter for 256GB) writes at 900MB/sec and goes in PCIe slot, so about 2x faster than even SATA III along with seamless boot device in any Mac Pro. 500GB is 'nice' but $499, so could serve for system and scratch and plenty of free space.
FBDIMMs are not expensive if you choose to add more, 800MHz NEMIX FBDIMM on Amazon.

Why does my hard drive rename itself?

the dock application is quitting constantly, finder quits, safari quits
and when i try and do a restore my hard drive re-names itself.

For more detail, see my user tip.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3941

Why does my hard drive state I have used 500 gb when I have only used 280 gb?

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