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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1875714" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Welcome to the forum. The display you have shown is notoriously inaccurate at storage use and availability. To get a better view of how much is available, right click on the drive icon on the desktop and then Get Info to see how much is really taken and available. To see what volumes may be on the drive, you can open Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities), then click on the "View" on the top bar of the resulting window and then "Show All Devices." Now your internal drive will show at the hardware level, with the Container(s) showing and the Volumes inside the container. What should be there are Volumes something like this image:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]33412[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That is my internal drive, but I'm using Big Sur, so the "Macintosh HD" is greyed out due to the enhanced security of Big Sur. I don't remember how Mojave works, exactly, but you should have the HD and HD - Data Volumes. The other Volume you see, "com.apple.os.update...." is a volume that the system created on the system drive and which is, for me, not erasable nor deletable. And the "Data" drive is where my data is stored, my home directory, documents, etc. The OS merges HD and HD - Data into one "drive" in Finder and on the Desktop, but it is actually those two volumes. This is Apple's new file structure for drives, APFS, and is optimized for SSD drives. However, the OS applies the same change to rotating drives when the upgrade is installed. I think APFS started in High Sierra.</p><p></p><p>So, take a look at what Volumes are in the Container and let us know. Don't delete any of them until we see what's there because what YOU think is not important may be VERY important to the OS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1875714, member: 396914"] Welcome to the forum. The display you have shown is notoriously inaccurate at storage use and availability. To get a better view of how much is available, right click on the drive icon on the desktop and then Get Info to see how much is really taken and available. To see what volumes may be on the drive, you can open Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities), then click on the "View" on the top bar of the resulting window and then "Show All Devices." Now your internal drive will show at the hardware level, with the Container(s) showing and the Volumes inside the container. What should be there are Volumes something like this image: [ATTACH type="full"]33412[/ATTACH] That is my internal drive, but I'm using Big Sur, so the "Macintosh HD" is greyed out due to the enhanced security of Big Sur. I don't remember how Mojave works, exactly, but you should have the HD and HD - Data Volumes. The other Volume you see, "com.apple.os.update...." is a volume that the system created on the system drive and which is, for me, not erasable nor deletable. And the "Data" drive is where my data is stored, my home directory, documents, etc. The OS merges HD and HD - Data into one "drive" in Finder and on the Desktop, but it is actually those two volumes. This is Apple's new file structure for drives, APFS, and is optimized for SSD drives. However, the OS applies the same change to rotating drives when the upgrade is installed. I think APFS started in High Sierra. So, take a look at what Volumes are in the Container and let us know. Don't delete any of them until we see what's there because what YOU think is not important may be VERY important to the OS. [/QUOTE]
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