Free Space Confusion (external drive)

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Hi,
I have a 1TB lightening drive. The drive had 19.9MB of free space. I moved about 360MB of data to another drive. I am still unable to copy anything to the external drive.

When I "look" at the whole drive 19.9MB is reported as free. (far left image of attachment)

I have one folder on the drive, Lightroom. When I "look" at the Lightroom folder the finder reports I am using 384GB I should have LOTS of room. (center of attachment)

I have also added a Finder screen capture (Right of attachment)

Are there hidden files on this disk somewhere????

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Monty

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The drive had 19.9MB of free space. I moved about 360MB of data to another drive. I am still unable to copy anything to the external drive.

When you "move" something from one drive to another…you are not "moving" anything…you are "copying". In order to free up that 360meg on the original drive…you need to move the 360meg of items to the trash…and empty it.:)

- Nick
 
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The files and folders I moved have indeed moved. They do not appear in the original location.
I moved the folders named:
1899
1980
1997
1998
from the left Finder window to the right finder window.
As you can see they no longer appear in the right finder window

Monty

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Focusing on that 360meg of items that was "moved". If you started with 19.9meg of free space…and if you indeed did "move" 360meg of stuff to another drive…you should now have at least 19.9meg + 360meg = 379.9meg of free space.

I agree with you…if your "Lightroom" folder is taking up 384gig on a 1000gig drive…yes you should have plenty of free space.

- Is this external drive partitioned?
- Do you have Time Machine backups going to this drive?
- What happens when you do a command + i on this drive (how many gigs used & how many gigs free)?

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I am in the process of moving everything off the drive. I will reformat it and in the process I'll check for extra partitions....

I'll let you know what I find.

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If you'd really like to keep track of what/where/how much stuff is stored on your drives, I'd suggest springing the $13 for WhatSize.
 

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That's a good idea. Once the problem files/folders are dealt with a reformat may not be necessary.
 

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