Resolved Disk Utility reporting less free space than Finder?

[cambookpro]

Hi,

I was using Disk Utility a few minutes ago and noticed that it only says I have 135GB free on my HD, when Finder says I have 220GB free?

Anyone have any ideas why? And which one is accurate?

Thanks

EDIT: After looking in the About This Mac storage screen, the 'backups' section is around 85GBs, which is the difference between the two. Does Finder omit this?

 

[Weaselboy]

That is "local backups" created by Time Machine. You can read more about it here. Nothing wrong with your machine.

 

[bryan85]

To reclaim this space just toggle Time Machine off/on. It's stupid! I have to do this almost every day to reclaim >25GB space. The backups add up very quickly if you are moving around big media files.

 

[Weaselboy]

To reclaim this space just toggle Time Machine off/on. It's stupid! I have to do this almost every day to reclaim >25GB space. The backups add up very quickly if you are moving around big media files.

If you just ignore it, OS X will shrink the local backup on its own if you need the space for user files. Although, my OCD does sometimes compel me to zero it out this way also.

 

[bryan85]

If you just ignore it, OS X will shrink the local backup on its own if you need the space for user files. Although, my OCD does sometimes compel me to zero it out this way also.

I thought the same thing also however, I was proven wrong last night when I was downloading movies I had purchased through iTunes. My downloads got paused and I got a low disk space notification. After toggling Time Machine to off, I was able to reclaim roughly 25GB of space and resume my downloads.

 

[cambookpro]

Thanks for the responses everyone. Think I will leave it for now then as I still have a good amount free, good to know there is a way to get rid of them though.

 

[Simplicated]

Type this in Terminal to stop OS X from making local backups:

sudo tmutil disablelocal