ufless.blogg.se - Mac keeps saying disk full

Start you mac from the recovery drive and go to disk utility. When you have os x 10.10 installed you will see the drives "Macintosh HD" amd os x 10.10 recovery. You will get in a menu where you can choose which drive you want to startup from. When that is completed shut down your mac and reboot it with the alt-key pressed. You could make a backup using time machine to an external harddrive. To re-hide hidden files once you're done, simply runĭefaults write AppleShowAllFiles -bool FALSE Replacing "/path/to/folder" with the actual folder path.

In the event that you don't have permission to trash the folder, switch back to Terminal and run: Keep checking through folders until you find the largest one, then drill down from there and trash it (so long as you know it is actually a safe folder to trash!). The other folder to check would be "/var" as this is where caches are stored from Mavericks onwards. If you do, check their sizes, one of them is most likely the culprit. There were two ".Trashes" folders and one was heavily bloated. In the case I had, ".Trashes" was actually the culprit. Since you say you've already checked your User folder and Applications, don't worry about them, but otherwise check each of the hidden folders to verify their file size.

With nothing selected, Inspector should show you that you have 245GB used.

Press Cmd+alt+i to bring up the Inspector (I prefer this over Cmd+i for this step as it allows you to change the contents of the Inspector window depending on what you have selected).

Open Finder and navigate to the root of your drive ("/").

Run defaults write AppleShowAllFiles -bool TRUE & killall Finder.

The case I saw last year had an enormous amount of data reflecting under "Backups", but none of that information could be found anywhere, and disk scanners couldn't find it.

You should see a breakdown of your hard drive as in the screenshot below.

Click the Apple () Menu on your Menu Bar.

The disk was saying it was practically full, yet there was hardly anything on it. I had a similar issue with a customer's MacBook Pro about a year ago.