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<blockquote data-quote="Inuevo" data-source="post: 1844728" data-attributes="member: 235824"><p>I've seen plenty of posts about drives appearing full (using cmnd-I), when they are not. But I have the opposite problem. My single 750GB internal drive is reporting the opposite, and it's gobbledegook. It says:</p><p></p><p>Capacity: 749.3 GB</p><p>Available: 759.11 GB</p><p>Used: – – bytes (– – KB on disk)</p><p></p><p>The only correct thing here is the capacity. But in fact I've used around 150GB so there is around 600GB available. </p><p></p><p>This hasn't happened out of the blue. I have a Late 2011 MacBook Pro running Lion OS 10.7.5. I have resisted upgrading for fear of losing the use of some old apps. A couple of weeks ago I experienced odd crashes: first lots of fine vertical lines before the screen went blank. Later, a complete freeze followed by 3 loud beeps, repeating every few seconds. I took the back off and cleaned out 8 years worth of dust and fluff and removed and reseated the RAM. No more beeps but still the occasional crash – one with thick pink and white vertical lines. But then all seemed well and I decided to clone the internal drive to an external drive to preserve it, prior to upgrading the internal OS. </p><p></p><p>I dug out a 3TB Lacie USB3 drive which I connected using a Lacie USB3 Express Card. I had great difficulty getting the drive to mount, but when it finally did I immediately erased and partitioned it and started the cloning using Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.5. After just a few minutes it said it had finished, with one error. But clearly it hadn't. It had only copied a few folders and not even the contents. </p><p></p><p>Returning to it the next day, I could not mount the Lacie drive again. So I tried a different Express Card – and that worked! (So much for the Lacie one…). I then successfully cloned the internal drive to a partition on the external one, which, using cmnd-I now says:</p><p></p><p>Capacity: 999.75 GB</p><p>Available: 845.88 GB</p><p>Used: 153,863,872,512 bytes (153.86 GB on disk)</p><p></p><p>which looks spot on. But when I check my internal drive it shows as above – empty. </p><p></p><p>A couple of other odd things: after one crash I rebooted into Safe Mode and the display had 'split' down the middle, and moved horizontally so that the left and right sides of the display met in the middle. And the cursor was just a few extremely feint white dots.</p><p></p><p>Another time, when opening files in different apps I got a message like: 'You are about to open this application for the first time…' yet I had been using it regularly up to the day before. But also, I had noticed some time ago that if I select any app in Applications without opening it, it shows a 'Last opened' date which is completely wrong. Even Carbon Copy Cloner still shows the same date – 'Friday 27 April 2012' – for 'Created', 'Modified' and 'Last opened'.</p><p></p><p>So my questions are: Have I inadvertently corrupted something in the OS? Can I safely try upgrading to El Capitan, and indeed would that cure the problem? Or do I need to attempt some repair work first, in which case what, and how?</p><p></p><p>Any help gratefully received as I have now been tackling this for days! Though as we have now been told to stay indoors to stop the spread of Covid-19, I guess I'll have plenty of time to fix it...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Inuevo, post: 1844728, member: 235824"] I've seen plenty of posts about drives appearing full (using cmnd-I), when they are not. But I have the opposite problem. My single 750GB internal drive is reporting the opposite, and it's gobbledegook. It says: Capacity: 749.3 GB Available: 759.11 GB Used: – – bytes (– – KB on disk) The only correct thing here is the capacity. But in fact I've used around 150GB so there is around 600GB available. This hasn't happened out of the blue. I have a Late 2011 MacBook Pro running Lion OS 10.7.5. I have resisted upgrading for fear of losing the use of some old apps. A couple of weeks ago I experienced odd crashes: first lots of fine vertical lines before the screen went blank. Later, a complete freeze followed by 3 loud beeps, repeating every few seconds. I took the back off and cleaned out 8 years worth of dust and fluff and removed and reseated the RAM. No more beeps but still the occasional crash – one with thick pink and white vertical lines. But then all seemed well and I decided to clone the internal drive to an external drive to preserve it, prior to upgrading the internal OS. I dug out a 3TB Lacie USB3 drive which I connected using a Lacie USB3 Express Card. I had great difficulty getting the drive to mount, but when it finally did I immediately erased and partitioned it and started the cloning using Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.5. After just a few minutes it said it had finished, with one error. But clearly it hadn't. It had only copied a few folders and not even the contents. Returning to it the next day, I could not mount the Lacie drive again. So I tried a different Express Card – and that worked! (So much for the Lacie one…). I then successfully cloned the internal drive to a partition on the external one, which, using cmnd-I now says: Capacity: 999.75 GB Available: 845.88 GB Used: 153,863,872,512 bytes (153.86 GB on disk) which looks spot on. But when I check my internal drive it shows as above – empty. A couple of other odd things: after one crash I rebooted into Safe Mode and the display had 'split' down the middle, and moved horizontally so that the left and right sides of the display met in the middle. And the cursor was just a few extremely feint white dots. Another time, when opening files in different apps I got a message like: 'You are about to open this application for the first time…' yet I had been using it regularly up to the day before. But also, I had noticed some time ago that if I select any app in Applications without opening it, it shows a 'Last opened' date which is completely wrong. Even Carbon Copy Cloner still shows the same date – 'Friday 27 April 2012' – for 'Created', 'Modified' and 'Last opened'. So my questions are: Have I inadvertently corrupted something in the OS? Can I safely try upgrading to El Capitan, and indeed would that cure the problem? Or do I need to attempt some repair work first, in which case what, and how? Any help gratefully received as I have now been tackling this for days! Though as we have now been told to stay indoors to stop the spread of Covid-19, I guess I'll have plenty of time to fix it... [/QUOTE]
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