About This Mac info incorrect

[Dreamer2go]

Hello all...
I just bought and received my new retina macbook pro...

I was messing around with the computer, and only download some music off my "Purchased" iTunes section...

How come in "About This Mac", the information displayed seems way off? I have 169.1MB, but it says I have 1.38GB of Audio?
Even Garageband used 3XX~MB.... and I don't even have any "Movies" nor "Photos" in my computer.... I JUST unboxed it and downloaded Chrome, 161.MB worth of iTunes purchased music.... and that's it!

What's wrong with this info? I don't want to reinstall my mac just for this reason!

Thanks for your help!

PS: I searched the forums already, and googled... none of the answer really helps.

 

[KnightWRX]

There is nothing wrong with that result. The "About This Mac" info looks over your entire hard drive and makes note of every audio file it finds, not just your music or whatever and lists that as a result.

Every AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, MID, etc... No matter if its a system file, a file installed by an application for its own use, your iTunes library, samples for audio programs, etc..

 

[GGJstudios]

If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion/ML storage tab is about, this may help explain:

What is this "Other" in the storage tab? What is eating my space​

For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:

• Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.
  
  
• For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion or later, space may being consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled.
  
  OS X: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs​
  
  
• Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
  
  
• Check the System Memory tab in Activity Monitor to check page outs and swap used. If swap used is significant, restart your computer and track that value under your normal workload. If you have significant page outs under normal use, you could benefit from more RAM.
  
  
• Search with Finder to see if the space is being consumed by a very large file or several large files. Adjust the 50GB in the illustration to whatever size you deem appropriate.
  
  
• Use OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report, Disk Inventory X, DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to see how space is being used on your drive. Some of these apps may show more detail than others, so try several.
  
  
• Check your drive with Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
  
  
• Try re-indexing your drive: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes

Here are a few resolutions found by others with the same question:

• Encrypted drive
• Time Machine backup files and needed disk repair
• App filling log file
• App or file was 89GB
• Drive needed to be re-indexed
• Time Machine backup file
• Large app cache file
• Garageband files and video podcasts
• Oversized email being duplicated
• Another email issue

Freeing up space in Mac OS X

How OS X and iOS report storage capacity