Shrinking MacBook HD

I was running out of HD space so last week I moved all my music to an external HD to free up a lot of space. A week later I had an "insufficient space" error come up when I tried to copy a large folder to the HD. I looked at the HD's info and saw that the "total capacity" now read as 55.7GB - while the HD is supposed to be 80GC capacity - the space I had left wasn't enough to accommodate the folder I was importing, hence the error. Where would that space have gone - why is my HD now only 55GB? I can't for the life of me think what's happened.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

James

MacBook - 2Ghz CD - about three years old.

You might want to download and install "Disk Inventory X" which will give you a graphical view of what space is being used on your internal hard drive.

Link (It's free.)

I'm not sure why you received an error importing a folder if there was 55 GB of remaining space on your HD. Unless of course the folder itself exceeded or was close to 55 GB!

Regards.

jimjimma said:

I was running out of HD space so last week I moved all my music to an external HD to free up a lot of space. .

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How did you transfer your music from iTunes to the external hard drive? I have been wanting to do that but don't know how. My apologies for this is not an answer to your question.

You don't by any chance have a bootcamp windows install set for about 25 gig, do you?

I'd take a look at your disk utility and see if your HD is partitioned (assuming you don't have a bootcamp partition). It almost sounds like you've got a second partition on the laptop that is using the rest of the space...

chscag said:

You might want to download and install "Disk Inventory X" which will give you a graphical view of what space is being used on your internal hard drive.

Link (It's free.)

I'm not sure why you received an error importing a folder if there was 55 GB of remaining space on your HD. Unless of course the folder itself exceeded or was close to 55 GB!

Regards.

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Thanks, that program is dope, but alas doesn't help as the problem is HD space my OS is no longer recognising.

I have no partitions, no bootcamp - just a shrinking hard drive.

Any help welcomed!

Thanks,

James

possibly a stupid question, but you deleted your music from the macbook, after you moved it to the external HD yes?

Yes.

It's not that I don't have the free space, it's that the space isn't there - used or otherwise.

Anyone else with any tips?

Thanks,

James