After reading this forum discussion, I sure am glad that I am "still" on El Capitan!
Run this command in Terminal, give it a few minutes to complete, then tell us the output.Could someone please help me?
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /
Run this command in Terminal, give it a few minutes to complete, then tell us the output.
Code:sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /
This will show the size in GB of the base folders, including system and hidden folders.
408 /Users
sudo mdutil -E ~/
You have a lot of data in your users folder there. Do you think you really have 408GB of personal data in there? If not, run the command again like this to drill down in that user folder some more.
Code:sudo mdutil -E ~/
Fabio-MacBook-Pro:~ fabio$ sudo mdutil -E ~/
/Users/fabio:
Error: unknown indexing state.
He meant to say:Hi.. It is impossible to have all this amount data in my personal folder.
When I try to use the code that you sent, I am having an error message, am I doing something wrong?
Code:Fabio-MacBook-Pro:~ fabio$ sudo mdutil -E ~/ /Users/fabio: Error: unknown indexing state.
Thanks for the catch. Bad copy pasta job on my part.He meant to say:
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g ~/
If you have more than one user defined, change ~/ to /Users and then for each user add the user directory name.
DS
[doublepost=1547557126][/doublepost]Need help!!!Okay... you will need to run some Terminal commands.
Open your /Applications folder and find Terminal then double click to open it.
Then copy and past this line into the Terminal command line and enter. You will be asked for your login password. Give this command a minute or two to complete. It will show all the base folders and the space used by each. Copy and paste that result here for us to take a look.
Code:sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /
Need help!!!
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g ~/
Try a command-r boot to recovery then use Disk Utility to run first aid and see if that turns up any disk errors.If there's anything else I can try in the meantime I'd be very grateful.
No problem.... reboot and as it is restarting hold down the command key and the r key at the same time.Thanks again, Weaselboy. Sorry for being a complete numpty but I don't know how to do a 'command r boot to recovery'. Could you imagine you are talking to a five year old and walk me through it?
Also, do I need to backup before then? I still haven't been able to do that successfully.
Hmmm... I'm not liking that at all.Hi Weaselboy, thanks for the help. I tried running disk repair but it failed. I didn't seem able to do a screen capture in that mode so took photos of the info it gave me.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/B8s7MxU2UYV9pdSE9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/r58C1635gmBS2hVX7
May be a failing drive.I'm getting the spinning beach ball of doom quite a lot when I'm in Chrome and have too many tabs open. Recently Mail started crashing a lot, but that's not happened for a little while. Nothing seems particularly out of the ordinary. App store might be a bit slow to launch.
I'm not able to see the image.Ah. Oops.
Here you are. I've run it on the internal drive now. https://photos.app.goo.gl/iWM1PJys3jaJ1qRn7