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40GB missing on Harddrive?

Go into Disk Utility, click your main drive, and click "Partition". Is there any "empty space" or "unused space" or whatever in the pie chart?

Feel free to share a screenshot.
 
Chances are, the only way you're getting that space back will be to do this:

1. Use either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper to create a bootable cloned backup of your internal drive (the Mac partition, that is) on an EXTERNAL drive.

2. BOOT FROM the cloned backup.

3. Use Disk Utility to re-initialize the internal drive to HFS+ with journaling enabled, ONE partition.

4. Use CCC (or SD) to RE-clone the backup BACK TO the internal.

This WILL do the job, and do it right.
Takes a little time, though...
 
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Did you mouse over the line-graph elements? This may be "Purgeable" - try a google to understand more about this. (That is, it may not be "missing"
What does a cmd-i on the disk say?
Try something like Disk Inventory X to see if there is some blob someplace, such as a log file.
 
kohlson said:
Did you mouse over the line-graph elements? This may be "Purgeable" - try a google to understand more about this. (That is, it may not be "missing"
What does a cmd-i on the disk say?
Try something like Disk Inventory X to see if there is some blob someplace, such as a log file.
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Thanks all!

I ended up doing a complete reinstall of OS.... :/
 
It probably would have been fixable using command-line tools. Just for future reference. :)
 
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