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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1935487" data-attributes="member: 190607">The difference is that different utilities count different things in the total.&nbsp; The Finder tends not to count metadata and/or anything that is invisible.To find out what may be invisibly filling up your hard drive, have a look at this Web site:<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170321110308/http://Pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20170321110308/http://Pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html</a>If you seem to have a lot of invisible things filling up your hard drive, the first thing that I would do would be to download:Maintenance (free)&nbsp; <a href="https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/maintenance.html" target="_blank">https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/maintenance.html</a>and run it and see if it makes a big difference.&nbsp; You may have a ton of log files that need to be deleted.If that doesn't bring things back in line, I'd look for a huge Time Machine snapshot to your local disk, or if you use DropBox, I'd look for a ton of files that DropBox has stored locally.&nbsp; The Eclectic Light Company has an excellent article on finding out what is taking up a ton of free space on your hard drive:<a href="https://eclecticlight.co/2020/04/09/where-did-all-that-free-space-go-on-my-apfs-disk/" target="_blank">https://eclecticlight.co/2020/04/09/where-did-all-that-free-space-go-on-my-apfs-disk/</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1935487, member: 190607"] The difference is that different utilities count different things in the total. The Finder tends not to count metadata and/or anything that is invisible. To find out what may be invisibly filling up your hard drive, have a look at this Web site: [URL code="true"]https://web.archive.org/web/20170321110308/http://Pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html[/URL] If you seem to have a lot of invisible things filling up your hard drive, the first thing that I would do would be to download: Maintenance (free) [URL code="true"]https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/maintenance.html[/URL] and run it and see if it makes a big difference. You may have a ton of log files that need to be deleted. If that doesn't bring things back in line, I'd look for a huge Time Machine snapshot to your local disk, or if you use DropBox, I'd look for a ton of files that DropBox has stored locally. The Eclectic Light Company has an excellent article on finding out what is taking up a ton of free space on your hard drive: [URL code="true"]https://eclecticlight.co/2020/04/09/where-did-all-that-free-space-go-on-my-apfs-disk/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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