Questions tagged [disk-space]
the amount of space on a computer storage device, such as a hard disk, SSD, or USB flash drive
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How much storage space do I really have?
I have a Mac Mini M4 with 500 GB SSD running macOS Tahoe 26.1. The internal drive is formatted APFS, of course.
I’m getting some confusing results when I try to see how much storage I have available.
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What is giant folder in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync, no Info.plist?
I'm trying to find out why my "System Data" is taking 170 GB on my disk. One place I found a bunch of space is in under ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. There are 3 ...
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How to reclaim free space?
Here is what I get from diskutil list
I've read a few other forums and I think I generally understand the process but I want to double check I'm taking the right steps
I got my Mac secondhand and ...
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MacBook Pro showing 410GB as storage whereas it showed 494GB before, rest it shown as (free space) in terminal not a part of the main SSD
The terminal shows I still have 512GB of space but only 410 is being used in the MacBook Pro, rest is classified as (free space).
The disk Utility doesn't show the 84GB anywhere either, is any of the ...
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Startup disk cannot gather information on selected disk
My macbook air went to sleep and won’t awaken. Got the blinking file w/? and did a NVRAM and disk recovery first aid but still my computer isn’t locating the startup disk and thus won't start. What ...
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Can't Free Space on Boot Drive
I have a MacBook Pro 16" 2019 model with a 4TB SSD internal drive. I am running out of space (VMs and video projects) and even though I moved these VMs and video projects to an external drive, ...
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Why does DaisyDisk show my Snapshots size to be way bigger than the total size of all of my Snapshots?
I am trying to figure out how to free up space on a 2TB SSD that only has about 1.1TB of legitimate usage, but says its completely full. The disk has two APSF volumes on it, one taking up 1.8Tb (per ...
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Recover lost disk space (> 270 GB)
I have a brand new Mac with 4TB of SSD and it seems that ~270 GB are lost. I'd like to recover them if possible.
Below is the explanation on how I arrived to that total.
Disk Utility shows the ...
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My physical disk has unaccessible free space
I tried double booting Asahi Linux to mess around with it, but regretted the partition size I choose. So, I tried changing it, but when I deleted the Volumes the free space left over does not show up ...
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ES Explorer is using over 50GB: how can I empty it without reinstalling it?
ES Explorer is using over 50GB on my iPhone 12 mini (~57.7GB):
I don't see anything in ES Explorer:
How can I empty it without reinstalling it?
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How many gigs does it take to spotlight index 550 gigs?
I had 450 gigs of free space on my laptop out of a total of 1000 when I asked the spotlight index to compile. After it was done I only had 218 gigs. Seems like a lot to me. Is this normal?
I have a ...
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How to get notifications when apps are offloaded
Is it possible to configure iOS to notify me when it offloads an app? Or when it's low on space? I hit a couple surprises where things like widgets broke because they were offloaded. Ideally I'd be ...
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Mac High Sierra huge disk space usage discrepancy [duplicate]
Upgraded my macbook pro 2012 laptop from Mountain Lion to High Sierra recently.
Now the 256G SSD continues to run out of space.
DU shows 127G used.
Yet Finder and System info show 255G used. I have ...
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iOS: space management like `ncdu`
Is there a way to see what files and directories are using the most space on iOS?
iOS itself shows the storage used by each app, but no more finegrained than this. E.g., my video player app has ...
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Deleting APFS volume doesn't free up any space
I had a corrupt APFS volume (caused by bad SATA connection — has since been alleviated) of 150 GB reported by First Aid so I decided to create a new volume and reinstall macOS there.
In the end of my ...