Hello everyone, I am attempting to solve a problem regarding hard disk space on my Mothers MacBook Pro that has so far defeated me. When I look at her Hard Drive ( Apple 'I' ) it says that she has used 143 Gigs and has only 5 gigs available.
All well and good except I know she doesn't use that much in the way of photos and music ( or video ) so I tried to identify where most of this space was coming from in the Finder. Strangely, it told she had only used approx 50 gigs ( roughly 30 gigs of music and photos, and teh rest on Applications and Libarary)
So in theory she should still have 100 gigs available.
After looking on some forums here I downloaded some of shareware progs to try and get to the bottom of it. I used three programme in all ( 'Whatsize', 'Disc Inventory' and' OmniDiskSWeep') , and they all agreed that approx 50 gigs of her hard drive has been used.
The only clue I have as to what is going on is that she backs up her hard drive using WD Smart ware. When I opened this to check how 'full' it though her hard drive was, it told me that her 'system' file was about 100gigs! With all the other programmes ( mentioned above ) the system file is listed at a more realistic 4.6 gigs.
It's a bit of a mystery , and if anyone has any idea what the problem might be I would be extremely grateful of a potential solution.
Regards
All well and good except I know she doesn't use that much in the way of photos and music ( or video ) so I tried to identify where most of this space was coming from in the Finder. Strangely, it told she had only used approx 50 gigs ( roughly 30 gigs of music and photos, and teh rest on Applications and Libarary)
So in theory she should still have 100 gigs available.
After looking on some forums here I downloaded some of shareware progs to try and get to the bottom of it. I used three programme in all ( 'Whatsize', 'Disc Inventory' and' OmniDiskSWeep') , and they all agreed that approx 50 gigs of her hard drive has been used.
The only clue I have as to what is going on is that she backs up her hard drive using WD Smart ware. When I opened this to check how 'full' it though her hard drive was, it told me that her 'system' file was about 100gigs! With all the other programmes ( mentioned above ) the system file is listed at a more realistic 4.6 gigs.
It's a bit of a mystery , and if anyone has any idea what the problem might be I would be extremely grateful of a potential solution.
Regards