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It does not seem like it ought to be difficult. Open the Trash, click Cmd-i and get the size of the Trash, or so I thought. However it has been acting very strangely lately.
The other day doing the above gave me a size of about 135GB (I have been removing processed digital images, so there is a lot in the trash). I added some additional folders this morning and repeated the size check and got 35+GB, or about 100GB less than yesterday. Surprised, I navigated to one of the larger folders in the Trash and checked its size and was told it was 51GB, so how can the Trash show 35GB when one of its contents shows 51GB?
Clearly there is something I am misunderstanding, but I do not know what that might be. Can anyone point me in the direction of my mistake?
High Sierra 10.13.6 on a 2018 MacBook Pro.
The other day doing the above gave me a size of about 135GB (I have been removing processed digital images, so there is a lot in the trash). I added some additional folders this morning and repeated the size check and got 35+GB, or about 100GB less than yesterday. Surprised, I navigated to one of the larger folders in the Trash and checked its size and was told it was 51GB, so how can the Trash show 35GB when one of its contents shows 51GB?
Clearly there is something I am misunderstanding, but I do not know what that might be. Can anyone point me in the direction of my mistake?
High Sierra 10.13.6 on a 2018 MacBook Pro.