Recovering space in HD.

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Greetings....

I've been having problem deleting files from my mac and recovering space on my HD.

I move the files to the trash, delete them and them make sure they are gone by searching for the file in "spotlight". All are gone but the space I should have recovered won't come up.

For example: I currently have 8,54GB free in HD. Deleted 12GB of files. So, after deleting these files. In Macintosh HD it should have shown 20.54GB FREE!!!! But it didn't. Why?

Many thanks...

Ed.
 
Those deleted files are still in trash. Empty the trash, and the space will return.
 
Sometimes the Finder takes a while to update the free space available on the hard drive. Can you try logging out, then logging in again and checking the free space? Does it correctly report free space after a restart?
 
Thanks for the reply ElDiablo.

This problem started on Thursday. I've logged in/out several times since then. I just haven't got a clue what is going on. It is so weird!
 
Hi

my first post on these forums.

I have the same problem. I delete a file or files (in my case about 24GB), empty the trash, shut down, let the Vault thing do its thing), start up but the free disk space does not update.

For example I deleted 16GB of iMovie files. I did a "get info" on my user home directory and it said 108GB. Then I deleted the file, emptied the trash etc etc and still 108GB.... however the file is gone and if I add up the size of the all of the files and folders in the main folder it has gone down by 16GB, but this is not registering in finder.

Another example is I sent my movies from iTunes to an external drive and then deleted the original file (replacing it with an alias). This was about 8GB. Again the available space did not update, and oddly then if I try to copy it back from whence it came I get a "not enough space" message.

grrrrrrr

I have a MBP, 160GB HD, 10.5.2

any clues ???

*edit : one other thing. I downloaded omnisweep and did a sweep. O.S. says my Mac HD has used 135GB but Finder says 142GB with 6GB free. If I try to add a file > 6GB it says "not enough space"


thanks

Mat
 
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Try this:

Download and run a maintenance app such as OnyX or MainMenu or one of the many other 3rd party maintenance apps available for free ... make sure you download the Leopard version.

You will most likely need to reboot then report back with the results. :)
 
cheers. I downloaded diskwarrier and OnyX. The problem was fixed with I logged out, I think it was a problem with the Vault not freeing the space. Previsouly rather than loggin out I was restarting, which still went through the same routine, but failed to free the space. Once I logged out without shutting down the space was freed.

thanks for the advice


Mat
 
HAVE YOU TRIED "SECURE EMPTY TRASH" IT TAKES A LITTLE TIME, BUT IT OVERWRITES EVERYTHING WITH DOUBLE ZEROS.
DICKSTER & oops about the caps!
 
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