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Weird internal storage errors

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dizmonk

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Okay.. so there's something weird going on with my Studio.
1) My iTunes library is way too large... It's supposed to be about 700gb but as you can see from these screenshots it's showing over 1TB.
2) I can't get any accurate info as to what's eating up my hard drive other than Itunes. When I call up the "Manage Storage" option by right-clicking the drive it just spins... I've let it run for days and it doesn't finish.

In other words, there's stuff eating up my HD and I can't tell what it is... Any suggestions??? Thanks.
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rworne

rworne

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A couple of things:
Did you run a disk repair using disk utility? Does it give you a clean bill of health?

Also:
You can get ahold of OmniDiskSweeper - it's freeware and lets you drill down into directories to see what's taking up space.
 
Fishrrman

Fishrrman

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Download DiskWave from here:
It's small in size and free.

Open DiskWave and go to the preferences.
Put a checkmark in "show invisible files".
Close preferences.

The DiskWave window shows you all your volumes and drives in plain English (no ridiculous graphical formats).
Click on any item "on the left".
Now, you'll see what's ON the volume, listed in order of "largest to smallest".
You can easily locate what's eating up your space.
 
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dizmonk

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rworne said:
A couple of things:
Did you run a disk repair using disk utility? Does it give you a clean bill of health?

Also:
You can get ahold of OmniDiskSweeper - it's freeware and lets you drill down into directories to see what's taking up space.
Click to expand...
Tried that.. No changes more weird results...

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dizmonk

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Fishrrman said:
Download DiskWave from here:
It's small in size and free.

Open DiskWave and go to the preferences.
Put a checkmark in "show invisible files".
Close preferences.

The DiskWave window shows you all your volumes and drives in plain English (no ridiculous graphical formats).
Click on any item "on the left".
Now, you'll see what's ON the volume, listed in order of "largest to smallest".
You can easily locate what's eating up your space.
Click to expand...
Tried that.. didn't help... Any body got any other ideas???
 
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bergert

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Check if you have TimeMachine set; but do not connect the disk it will keep saving changes into free space. Montery generates an outrageos amount of changes > 100k.
 
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jdb8167

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rworne said:
That picture... I've seen that before on my system as well. I have a 512GB system, but distinctly remember once it said it was a 700GB drive. Ah, I wasn't imaging things. Must be a bug in ODS.

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Click to expand...
Maybe APFS snapshots. Maybe it is counting all files but some are duplicates taking up no extra space. A feature of APFS (copy on write).
 
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