Why is there a huge difference between what the Finder says is available on my internal hard drive and what System Information says is available?
The Finder says I have 123 Gb available on my 500 Gb internal hard drive.
Systen Information says I have 61 Gb of capacity remaining
Tech Tools says I have 61 Gb abailable.
Why the difference?
Since I am experiencing performance problems I tend to believe System Information.
Will optomizing my hard drive with Tech Tools or the equivalent help improve my performance?
At what % of capacity do I need to begin offloading stuff from my hard drive?
At what % of capacity do I need to begin offloading stuff from my hard drive?
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
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Also how do you request films/tv series to the UK itunes? There's tv series I'd like but they're incomplete like The Batman & Xena Warrior Princess. And films theta aren't available for download but you can purchase in a store like HMV? Apple isn't doing itself any favours by secluding countries by their store. They'd make billions if you could just select the iTunes Store you want to search & purchase from just by signing in! If anything what they're doing is putting themselves into a corner, other companies like Samsung & HTC are already on too of them for innovation & ease of use. The people they're attracting are predominantly existing Apple users not new customers. What do you guys think?It's not Apple's choice, they can only sell a particular item where the content provider/rights-holder has granted them a license to sell them. Content is licensed by the rights-holders to Apple on a country-by-country basis, each country therefore has to have its own store, and you have to be in a country to use its store - they want control over where their content is available.
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Use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To really see everything, you have to run it as root.
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Whats the best way to capture the data?
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Hi!
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thats it
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Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
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