Find hard drive space in Lion

joeg679 · Jul 22, 2011

I installed Lion the other day and I can't seem to find how much space I have left on the hard drive. When I had snow leopard I just had to click on Finder and the space was on the bottom of the window. Any ideas? Thanks

randalthor · Jul 22, 2011

You are not alone. I found it finally the other day when i wanted to know how much free space my network drives had. While in finder, press command / and that will invoke the same old status bar at the bottom of each finder window. Alternatively, you can go to about this mac more info and click storage, if you like how finder looks without it.

[edited for ipod typos]

joeg679 · Jul 22, 2011

randalthor said:
You are not alone. I found it finally the other day when i wanted to know how much free space my network drives had. While in finder, press command / and that will invoke the same old status bar at the bottom of each finder window. Alternatively, you can go to about this mac more info and click storage, if you like how finder looks without it.

Thanks a lot!

randalthor · Jul 22, 2011

/bows humbly before you

RezzRezzrow · Jul 23, 2011

Than you!!!!

Just upgraded to Lion and this was driving me insane!

My OCD thanks you!

neonrehan · Aug 7, 2011

Does anyone know what the "other" segment depicts within the System Profile - Storage view?

It shows that I only have 700MB free on a 320GB drive. Furthermore it also states that half of it occupied by "other" content. However, on the bottom of my finder it shows 36GB free.

bug?

GMarcoTavazzani · Nov 8, 2011

Thank you so much!

randalthor said:
You are not alone. I found it finally the other day when i wanted to know how much free space my network drives had. While in finder, press command / and that will invoke the same old status bar at the bottom of each finder window. Alternatively, you can go to about this mac more info and click storage, if you like how finder looks without it.

[edited for ipod typos]

You made my day (well… some minutes at least

)
Again THANKS!

randalthor · Nov 8, 2011

GMarcoTavazzani said:
You made my day (well… some minutes at least )
Again THANKS!

Any time, bud.

supercharge · Jun 1, 2012

1270300 said:
I installed Lion the other day and I can't seem to find how much space I have left on the hard drive. When I had snow leopard I just had to click on Finder and the space was on the bottom of the window. Any ideas? Thanks

As someone stated you can do (Command + /)
Or you can goto: View -> Show Status Bar

Note: the number in Finder does not show the local backups, since the system may reclaim that space as it gets full

To see how much space your drive is actually using, use Disk Utility (or go to Apple -> About this Mac -> More Info -> Storage)

Slydude · Jun 1, 2012

neonrehan said:
Does anyone know what the "other" segment depicts within the System Profile - Storage view?

If you check the blog there was a post about this recently. I can't seem to find the link at the moment. Also, are you using a portable Mac with Time Machine. Under Lion if it cannot find the Time Machine drive the backup files are stored on the internal drive until you get back to the Time Machine drive. I think that space shows up in some utilities and not others.

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