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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1809645" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>OK, so in that view anything not categorized by the other categories in the bar display is included. And that includes ALL files in EVERY location on the ENTIRE drive, not just your files, so system files, system images, system sounds, etc, all get categorized as "documents" because they aren't applications, or Photos, or whatever else is categorized on the bar display. Also, that particular display is notoriously inaccurate and not really of any useful purpose to the user because it looks at the ENTIRE drive and not just the User's files. </p><p></p><p>What is useful about "About This Mac" is the System Report that will tell you what hardware is installed and some high level information about the system when you need to do diagnostics. Otherwise, beyond the About This Mac initial window, none of the rest is that key. And the Storage information is, as I said, notoriously inaccurate from any user point of view.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1809645, member: 396914"] OK, so in that view anything not categorized by the other categories in the bar display is included. And that includes ALL files in EVERY location on the ENTIRE drive, not just your files, so system files, system images, system sounds, etc, all get categorized as "documents" because they aren't applications, or Photos, or whatever else is categorized on the bar display. Also, that particular display is notoriously inaccurate and not really of any useful purpose to the user because it looks at the ENTIRE drive and not just the User's files. What is useful about "About This Mac" is the System Report that will tell you what hardware is installed and some high level information about the system when you need to do diagnostics. Otherwise, beyond the About This Mac initial window, none of the rest is that key. And the Storage information is, as I said, notoriously inaccurate from any user point of view. [/QUOTE]
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