Why is my Hard disk capacity so low? Where are the missing gbs?
I have just purchased a mac book pro intel core duo 2ghz 80gb and have happily been instaling and setting up to suit all my needs.
It is currently showing that I only have 45.3gb of drive space left and that 28.91 gb has been used up already.
I know that i havent installed this much or even have that many files on it yet. my applications folder shows 4.72 gb in use and my documents folder shows 10.78gb. Theres 1 album so far on my itunes / music folder and nothig in ictures or movies. So where is the missing gbs? I can't believe the os system can be almost 14gb! Any clues?
Isn't the figure closer to 13? That is about typical.
To understand why, fire up Utilities > Activity Monitor (System Memory tab) and look at the size of Virtual Memory.
VM may be 5-8 Gig. That's all space being used on your hard drive by hidden VM files.
The sleep file may be 2-3 Gig. And then there are various caches that speed up all aspects of the computer.
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My Mac Mini has a 55 gig hard drive and it only has 200MB left! As most sites suggest, I have deleted all caches, removed unused programs, deleted old operating systems, emptied the trash, etc.
Finder is telling me that I am using 9.9 gigs but that the drive is full. Where are the other 45 gigs?
Here is what my finder is telling me about the main HDD:
There is nothing more that I can or want to delete in the "Users" section. 4 gb doesn't seem like much, anyway.
Why is my drive so full?
How can I free up space?Hi, plenty of great help here, but
At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15667/applejack
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 6 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 6 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
Trash old Log files.
First reboot will be slower, sometimes 2 or 3 restarts will be required for full benefit... my guess is files relying upon other files relying upon other files! :-)
Disconnect the USB cable from any Uninterruptible Power Supply so the system doesn't shut down in the middle of the process.
You might also open Console in Applications>Utilities & see if you are getting frequent errors logging continually. -
New mac mini, why so much hard disk space used
Hi All
Just bought a new Mac Mini, 1.4 with the 80gb disk,
After powering up and setting up etc, i noticed that over 10gb of the 80gb hard disk was already used out of the box!!!
How come all that disk space is used, im sure the OS doesnt need that amount of room? I have found a folder of about 1.2gb with a load of garage band samples and loops in, but where is the rest hiding???? Seems a whole waste of space to me??
Thanks
Rich
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.3) Belkin USB and Firewire Hub, Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and MouseYou have heard correctly, most Mac software, including GarageBand, can be deleted by moving the application (or whole folder if it's in one) to the Trash & emptying the Trash. Some programs may install some support files, but usually not until they are run for the first time. Those few programs that do scatter bits around (can you say Microsoft?) should come with an uninstaller.
There are freeware/shareware programs to remove unneeded language files. DeLocalizer & Monolingual come to mind.
But, since you are setting this Mac mini up from scratch, you might want to do what I do with a new Mac. I erase & reinstall the OS & bundled software from the CD/DVDs that come with it, doing a custom install of both so that I get only what I want. For me, this was important because I don't need any additional printer drivers & I already had full versions of Office & iWork to install.
Peggy -
My Mac has been a little slow, so I figured that I should make sure that I have enough storage capacity on my Hard Drive (HD). In doing so I realized that my HD is missing 100GB of space capacity. I thought that my HD was supposed to at least 499.25 of available space.
When using "About this Mac", it clearly shows that I only have 384.99 GB of capacity.
Where are the other 100 GB? I should mention that I recently deleted a partition for that same amount of storage. That has to have something to do with this? Can you help me?
About My Mac:
OS X Yosemite
Version 10.10.1
MacBook Pro (15"-inch, Early 2011)
Processor: 2GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Dish Description: TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF MediaDiscrepancy in calculating space between Finder and Disk Utility
“Finder does not take into account the Backups/ local snapshots,
but disk utility includes them.”
http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
Local backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878 -
My Windows 7 Professional desktop system hard disk got corrupted and I took the opportunity to install an SSD for a new system disk and reinstall Windows. The system is up and running on the SSD, with my old system disk now used for storage as it is still readable. The only Adobe product I have reinstalled so far is Reader XI but I would like to reinstall Elements 8 and Acrobat 9 without taking up more licences as both are also installed on my laptop. Can you point me to the best way to do this? - Thanks
If you have the two allotted activations already and one was lost on the hard drive that failed then you need to contact Adobe Support thru chat and ask them to reset your activations.
For the link below click the Still Need Help? option in the blue area at the bottom and choose the chat option...
Serial number and activation chat support (non-CC)
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service1.html ( http://adobe.ly/1aYjbSC ) -
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If you want to add a second partition to the internal drive (in Disk Utility, select the drive, then open the partition tab and just click the + button), you should first be sure that you will have enough room to accommodate whatever the second volume will be. I am currently doing this for Snow and Mountain Lion.
To get to whatever volume is not the startup disk, restart and hold down option/alt at the chime, which will bring up a selection of the two volumes. Use the left or right arrow keys to select it and then hit enter/return. -
I disabled my Macbook Hard Disk and lock the settings, after i try to reboot, the system wouldn't come up. It refuses to read instructions from the hard disk. How can i enable the hard disk when the system wouldn't come up?
How do you disabled it if running the same?
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I have bought a time capsule to use as time machine device. Until now I have used a external hard disk. How can I transfer the the old time machine datas to the time capsule?
This is really difficult to the point of not really worth it.
Keep the old TM backups in archive.. and start afresh on the TC.
Time Machine has a different way of backing up on Network drives cf Local drives.
Pondini does have a method to do it... but I would not recommend it.
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Replace the hard disk has, and also have lost the OS disk.
Replace the hard disk has, and also have lost the OS disk.
Reset on my computer to install the program instantly,
Is there any way?
Thank you.If I follow you correctly, you either have or will be replacing the hard drive in your iMac. You don't have the original OS X disks nor an operating system disk. Do you have a bootable backup? Here are some steps/options:
1) If you have a bootable backup, install the hard drive, boot from the external hard drive, then use SuperDuper or CCC to copy the external hard drive to your new internal hard drive.
2) You have your old hard drive, and it's not dead. Put it into an external case and see above.
3) You don't have either a bootable backup or a working old hard drive. You can try calling Apple Support to see if they still have the original OS X disks for your system. If they do, they'll charge a nominal price for them.
4) You checked and Apple no longer has disks for your system. You can go to the used market to buy Leopard 10.5 disks. If you do, be sure and get retail black-faced disks, but don't get the black-faced disk which is an upgrade disk .... if you don't have 10.4 on your system, it won't work. Careful of gray-faced OS X disks as they are locked to the original system type they ship with. So a gray faced OS X 10.5 disk for a MacBook won't work on your iMac.
5) Another related option is to buy 10.6 Snow Leopard, if your system meets requirements. This is still sold by Apple, and in the US is available online for $29.99 from the Apple store. Snow Leopard requirements are:
Mac computer with an Intel processor
1GB of memory
5GB of available disk space
DVD drive for installation
6) Or you could consider Lion, via the USB stick that is sold in Apple stores. Lion requirements are:
Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
2GB of memory (4GB recommended)
OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
7GB of available space
Hopefully I haven't totally misunderstood your question, and answered something you weren't asking! -
I have an older Mac Pro (2006). I want to install Boot Camp and Windows. I have installed a boxed Snow Leapord on the machine. And it says the download of the Boot camp drivers cannot continue because they are not available. But at that point I have not inserted a windows disk, so how does it know i have XP?
So it appears I am limited to Windows 7? And where are the Windows 7/Boot Camp Drivers? On the OS disk?
Finally, since I have necer considered Windows 7 before, I assume there are no compatability issues with mainstream applications that were running in XP?
Thank you.You're welcome
Just remember to reformat the partition (bootcamp partition) to NTFS with the windows installer, ensure to pick the correct partition. -
Upon updating to the new Photos program, all the previous "My Ratings" (1-5 stars) for photos have been removed. Why? My "Smart Albums" using the "My Ratings", i.e. photos with a 5 star rating within the past year, have been virtually destroyed in the update. The updates "modified" Smart
Album deleted the "My Ratings" parameter, retained the Date parameter so now Smart Album includes every photo within the date range parameter. Where are the "My Ratings" capabilities ? It appears they have been removed. If so, why ?Photos doesn't have true star ratings.
However, when photos are migrated from iPhoto or Aperture to Photos, they will have keywords assigned, like "1 star" or "5 stars". You can create smart albums based on these keywords.
You can also assign keyboard shortcuts so if you're in the keyword pane and type 1, it will assign the "1 star" keyword. -
Where are the diagnostic reports, or why aren't there any?
Hello
I understand that under mavericks, diagnostic reports are supposed to be found either in
/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ (System Diagnostic Reports),
or in
~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports (User Diagnostic Reports).
Unfortunately, even after a number of crashes, they aren't. While in my case, the system DiagnosticReports folder exists, but contains nothing but powerstats, in the user library, not even the folder is there.
So, either they are elsewhere, or they aren't being generated. In the first case, my question would be: Where are the diagnostic reports? In the latter, it would be: Why aren't there any (despite the system crashes)?
(A similar question is to be found here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/24773940#24773940 , but ended with an open question. I'm starting a new thread, because this old one is marked as answered.)
Thanks a lot.These are logs to help if a program crashes, or has other issues.
If there are no issues, no logs are produced.
See: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4063
Diagnostic and usage reports may include the following information:
Details about application or system not responding, application unexpectedly quitting, or kernel panics
Information about events on your computer (for example, whether a certain function, such as waking your computer, was successful or not)
Usage information (for example, data about how you use Apple and third-party software, hardware, and services)
Here's an example of one of my DiagnosticLogs:
Process: Preview [799]
Path: /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview
Identifier: com.apple.Preview
Version: 7.0 (826)
Build Info: Preview-826000000000000~2
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [159]
Responsible: Preview [799]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2014-02-13 20:34:49.464 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 1B59A7FC-F3E6-021D-3D42-C1AE03E74EA3
Sleep/Wake UUID: 465C3455-1DE9-4244-9DFC-41A34BC596F5
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '*** -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:]: index 0 beyond bounds for empty array'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called -
Sometimes my hard disk makes a low crackling sound. Anything I should be worried about?
I have a Pavillion DV6 6121tx, with a 5400 RPM 640GB hard drive. I bought this laptop 3 months ago, and recently sometimes i notice a low crackling sound coming. I guess it would be coming from the hard drive only.
Should i take it to Customer Service Center?
I did do a check to see any errors by using TuneUp Disk Doctor.
Say "Thanks" by clicking the Kudos Star in the post that helped you.
Please mark the post that solves your problem as "Accepted Solution"Firstly thank you for your reply.
Indeed, a hard disk noise is not normal and just mean the end of his life. But I know this sound well because my other computers also crack and for some of it, it's unbearable. Yet they make it since long, this has never been otherwise, and their hard disk always go good.
My problem is that the noise appeared suddenly, for an unknown reason, and according to all the software I've tested, he's always fine.
In your opinion, when I will format my hard disk to install Windows 7, it could have an effect?
Otherwise, as a last resort, I would see the service after sale of my store and then we'll see ...
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Why is my hard disk not detected in my macbook, but detected in others
I'm using the Macbook 13" Retina Display with OS Mavericks
about a few days ago, when i inserted my PQI H568V my mac gave statement "the disc you inserted was not readable by this computer"
then i choose the ignore button(if i'm not mistaken).
Then the next day, when i wanted to check for my files, my macbook cannot recognise the hard drive.
But when i plug it in into other mac, it can be recognised and the data is all still there.
please help me! thanksYes, I have done the backup.
Macbook Pro Retina 13 inch, Late 2013
OS X 10.9.5
Not only in other mac, but i've tried to mount it in other laptops, it's also being detected. However it isn't detected in my macbook only.
After I chose the ignore button, I didn't do anything, but I only shut down my mac and then unplugged the hard disk.
After a few days, i notice this from my disk utility
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Why does my hard disk keep failing?
I've had my late 2009, white Macbook running Snow Leopard since February 2010 and in the two years I've had it the 'Macintosh HD' has broken three times. One time an application told me to download Adobe shockwave which totally messed it up and it would barely stay on for five minutes and the second and third times were seemingly unprovoked. The first two times I lost all my files - I'm fifteen and I can't afford to buy expensuve backing up software to back up a laptop that I already saved for a long time to buy.
I had another problem that I think was an unrelated hardware problem, but once every hour or so, the screen would become pixelated, freeze and fade to white, only changing back if you moved it. It seemed to sort itself out but it was pretty concerning.
I had to reset it again this morning after running disk utility which told me that the hard disk could not be repaired. I figured this might be imminent so my files are all safely backed up, but I'm not particularly amused and doubt this is normal for a Mac seeing as no one would spend £800 on something that you have to reset annually. I was wondering if some way I'm using my Mac is causing it to do this. I'm careful with my space used and I rarely have under 170 GB free, so I don't think it's my files. Maybe I've just got a faulty computer? Any ideas?I take it that you have a 250GB hard drive in it?
With that much free space, I would think that your HD should be fairly trouble free. Only thing that I can think of that would cause an issue is improperly shutting down constantly. And you should restart your computer at least once a month or so, but either of these things are likely to have caused corruption bad enough to take down the drive. I guess it is possible that your drive has some bad sectors, you might want to run a more comprehensive drive utility than Disk Utility. Disk Warrior for example.
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