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Unaccounted for Hard Drive Space
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<blockquote data-quote="xstep" data-source="post: 614872" data-attributes="member: 11647"><p>I've <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=477199#post477199" target="_blank">responded</a> to this kind of thing before.</p><p></p><p>My guess is OS X is reporting your drive capacity at about 111.75GB instead of nearly 120GB. Use Disk Utility in the Utiltities folder to look at it.</p><p></p><p>You have accounted for 78GB + 11GB free space to equal only 89GB, so you are missing the counting of about 22GB. That seems like a lot given the OS doesn't take that much space. By the way, which version of OS X are you using and have you emptied the trash? Do you have some fancy professional video or audio editing application installed, or third party extensions to iMovie or Garage Band.</p><p></p><p>I suspect you haven't counted <strong>everything</strong>. It would be very abnormal for the system to not report back the correct numbers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xstep, post: 614872, member: 11647"] I've [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=477199#post477199"]responded[/URL] to this kind of thing before. My guess is OS X is reporting your drive capacity at about 111.75GB instead of nearly 120GB. Use Disk Utility in the Utiltities folder to look at it. You have accounted for 78GB + 11GB free space to equal only 89GB, so you are missing the counting of about 22GB. That seems like a lot given the OS doesn't take that much space. By the way, which version of OS X are you using and have you emptied the trash? Do you have some fancy professional video or audio editing application installed, or third party extensions to iMovie or Garage Band. I suspect you haven't counted [B]everything[/B]. It would be very abnormal for the system to not report back the correct numbers. [/QUOTE]
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