Problem with Finder not displaying the SSD remaining space correctly

[123Bernard]

Hi

Since yesterday, the Finder stopped displaying the actual remaining space on my 1TB SSD. It says that I have 289G remaining free space, while I know that there's actually around 600G. When I calculate the total size of the 4 basic folders size of the SSD (the apps + the library + the system + the users folders) it comes to around 375G. Which does leaves around 600G.

I tried everything I could think of to solve the problem, but nothing works. I was actually running Sonoma and ! thought that maybe updating to Sequoia would fix the problem (I was thinking anyway it was time to update), updating to Sequoia went well, everything seems to be working fine, but the problem persists.

If anyone has any idea as to what may cause that behavior, please let me know. Thanks.

PS: I tried trashing the Finder .plist file in the Preferences, thinking that might help, but it didn't.

 

[Bigwaff]

What does Disk Utility report for free space? In Disk Utility, do you see any snapshots?

 

[Alameda]

Time Machine will store a snapshot of your next backup… it actually backs up to the drive it is supposed to backup. This can take up massive amounts of space, but it’s all temporary and it’s supposed to delete itself automatically if you need more space.

 

[123Bernard]

Bigwaff and Alameda, that was it. Phew. I didn't know about "snapshots" created around doing backups. Very good to know.

 

[bousozoku]

For some reason, it takes time for the system to report the correct amount of free space.

I've noticed this several times where I wanted to make space for a game, so I deleted a number of games and other applications, only to see that much of the anticipated space did not present itself. It appeared a day or two later, even with multiple restarts.

 

[123Bernard]

For some reason, it takes time for the system to report the correct amount of free space.

I've noticed this several times where I wanted to make space for a game, so I deleted a number of games and other applications, only to see that much of the anticipated space did not present itself. It appeared a day or two later, even with multiple restarts.

It sure is good to know, about those snapshots. Then while one can wait for things to be corrected by themselves, one can also delete them in Disk Utility. Neat.

 

[bousozoku]

It sure is good to know, about those snapshots. Then while one can wait for things to be corrected by themselves, one can also delete them in Disk Utility. Neat.

In 2001, when Mac OS X was first released, I needed the application OnyX to clean up a lot of things Apple hadn't finished. It's odd that they are having minor trouble now after so many years.

It's always good to have workarounds.

 

[123Bernard]

In 2001, when Mac OS X was first released, I needed the application OnyX to clean up a lot of things Apple hadn't finished. It's odd that they are having minor trouble now after so many years.

It's always good to have workarounds.

Onyx. I have it. I didn't know it could address snapshots, but then I didn't even know about those. I'll check that out.

 

[bousozoku]

Onyx. I have it. I didn't know it could address snapshots, but then I didn't even know about those. I'll check that out.

It isn't for that.

Apple really didn't have such a problem until the Journaled file systems and they've had plenty of time to get things right. Still, it's better than Windows.