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Why do Finder & Disk Utility show different amounts?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mark F" data-source="post: 1935450" data-attributes="member: 301631"><p>Thanks Patrick. The article seems to assume that Disk Utility is more likely to be incorrect than Finder but in my case I'm wondering if that is so. Both DU and Finder show the same amount of available space. The total of the available space and what DU shows as having been used adds up to 4tb, as I would expect. But the same calculation for Finder leaves 300gb missing (the numbers changed since yesterday). Also, the article suggests starting in Safe mode to fix the issue but does not say how to fix it. BTW, my Trash is a few gigs at most. Less than six.</p><p></p><p>I thought I could just add up the usage for each of the TM backups folders but unfortunately, Finder does not show the total usage for each of the TM backups. I would have to open each folder and subfolder to see the usage and that is a daunting task. </p><p></p><p>Thanks again.</p><p></p><p>Mark</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark F, post: 1935450, member: 301631"] Thanks Patrick. The article seems to assume that Disk Utility is more likely to be incorrect than Finder but in my case I'm wondering if that is so. Both DU and Finder show the same amount of available space. The total of the available space and what DU shows as having been used adds up to 4tb, as I would expect. But the same calculation for Finder leaves 300gb missing (the numbers changed since yesterday). Also, the article suggests starting in Safe mode to fix the issue but does not say how to fix it. BTW, my Trash is a few gigs at most. Less than six. I thought I could just add up the usage for each of the TM backups folders but unfortunately, Finder does not show the total usage for each of the TM backups. I would have to open each folder and subfolder to see the usage and that is a daunting task. Thanks again. Mark [/QUOTE]
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