Problem storage Macbook retina 2014

[mambu]

Hi,
i bought a mac only a few mounth ago, and it's pretty empty but for some reason the function "about this mac"->Storage show that my SSD it's full with the grafic animation but empty with write on it. I attach pitcure.
Some of you do you know why?

Thank you very much
Manuel

 

[GGJstudios]

If you're wondering what "Other" category in the 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 by entering the following command in Terminal: sudo tmutil disablelocal.
  About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs​
• Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
• 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
• 18.45EB of movies shown
• Duplicate movies in iPhoto app

Freeing up drive space in Mac OS X

 

[ABC5S]

Did you install the latest Yosemite 10.10.1 ? I did and storage returned to normal. Other wise its really no big deal. Won't hurt anything, just a bug

 

[mambu]

Yes i install the last yosimite update in hope that something change but nothing.
I restart but nothing, my timemachine is off, and i try same programs to analyse and i attach the results (all say that my pc has same free space).
The only thing that i notice is in "Disk utility":
if i click on SDD it's full but if i click on the unique partition that i have that it's free.
(sorry if my english is too bad)

 

[ABC5S]

What about a clean install not just an update ? Worked for me

 

[tumas]

Did you run a disk repair and/or repair permissions with disk utility?

This worked on my system (about this mac also displayed very strange storage sizes but after running the "repair disk" command, it was back to normal after the next reboot)

 

[Weaselboy]

Hi,
i bought a mac only a few mounth ago, and it's pretty empty but for some reason the function "about this mac"->Storage show that my SSD it's full with the grafic animation but empty with write on it. I attach pitcure.
Some of you do you know why?

Thank you very much
Manuel

Your Spotlight index is corrupted and that causes that readout to be incorrect. Run the Terminal command below to reindex Spotlight and that should fix it.

Seems to be a common issue in Yosemite.

sudo mdutil -E /

 

[mambu]

Your Spotlight index is corrupted and that causes that readout to be incorrect. Run the Terminal command below to reindex Spotlight and that should fix it.

Seems to be a common issue in Yosemite.

sudo mdutil -E /

Perfect, it works. Thanks you very much!