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Why do Finder & Disk Utility show different amounts?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1935495" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>I can second the EclecticLight Company article. One thing that macOS is now doing is storing TM as a snapshot, which means that when it can, it compresses space out of a file. But when that file is brought out of TM, it expands back to original size. Finder struggles with the concept, so you get strange reports. Add iin that APFS also compresses files as it stores them and you have the dilemma of finding out just how much space you really have used.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1935495, member: 396914"] I can second the EclecticLight Company article. One thing that macOS is now doing is storing TM as a snapshot, which means that when it can, it compresses space out of a file. But when that file is brought out of TM, it expands back to original size. Finder struggles with the concept, so you get strange reports. Add iin that APFS also compresses files as it stores them and you have the dilemma of finding out just how much space you really have used. [/QUOTE]
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