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Why is finder showing my hard drive with this much storage?

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Go to solution Solved by Electronics Wizardy,

don't user that meter, it sucks. Use ncdu or disk inventory x.

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??????

storage is completely wrong

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1 minute ago, crashahotrod said:

WAT explain the problem

Can you not read the numbers that say "300GB free of 499GB" and then see that there is not 300GB free?

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Dunno about macs, do they use file compression? If so, you could have more stuff on there and still have that free space.

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9 minutes ago, porina said:

Dunno about macs, do they use file compression? If so, you could have more stuff on there and still have that free space.

That would be very interesting

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17 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

don't user that meter, it sucks. Use ncdu or disk inventory x.

df -h:

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