Not free any memory

[Mrnicoo]

I get so tired of my Mac Book Pro.
Suddenly I can't remove files so the HD give more space,
Let say I have 20GB free and I remove 5GB movies and music to the trash bin. After that I empty that but still I have 20GB free, not 25GB????

I installed Omni Disc Sweeper and when I run that I can see all this files I remove end up in a folder called: cleverfildes/hlink.ref
This means I have to go into that folder and remove all files again and THEN I get my 50GB back and the HD shows 25GB Free...

Anyone have a solution for this?
Drives me crazy...
Thanks for all tips

 

[harryb2448]

G'day and welcome to the forums.

Remember to keep 15-20% of the hard drive free space for the drive to work anywhere near its capacity. If this is happinging frequently the hard drive is too small. Tips? Larger drive, less movies and music or keep emptying it. You may also find defragging the hard drive to be of assistance to free up space if you have a platter drives. iDefrag is one utility that does this. Do not use defraggng software on an SSD.


https://coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag/

 

[Slydude]

Are you by chance running Disk Drill? I haven't found much on these files but what I have found suggests that this is created by Disk Drill. See here.

 

[chscag]

Wow, Sly! That's a real jewel you found. I just checked (using muCommander) and my "Cleverfiles" folder had close to 2 GB of data. I have not actively used "Disk Drill" for some time so those files were from a long time ago. I don't know why I never noticed them. Anyway, I just removed the entire folder (requires your admin password) and regained 2 GB of space.

 

[mad_macs]

Get an external drive

External drives are wonderful, cheap, and reliable. Save the internal harddrive for your applications and day to day stuff. If you have a pretty large harddrive and you only have 20gb free you are going to have problems with disk management over time because disk maintenence won't be able to operate within that space efficiently.

 

[Slydude]

Wow, Sly! That's a real jewel you found. I just checked (using muCommander) and my "Cleverfiles" folder had close to 2 GB of data. I have not actively used "Disk Drill" for some time so those files were from a long time ago. I don't know why I never noticed them. Anyway, I just removed the entire folder (requires your admin password) and regained 2 GB of space.

I didn't realize it last night/this morning when I made the post but I probably have some of those files around too. I'm probably in the same boat you are and didn't realize it till I read your post.

@mad_macs Although you are right about internal drives and needing free space that doesn't really address the OP's concern. In that case space which should be getting freed up isn't registering as free space.