I did get this resolved, I used a terminal command which allowed me to get underneath the admin account. Was able to recover approximately 30gb. Thanks for asking.
> On Aug 28, 2015, at 2:39 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Didn't notice if you got this resolved. Sounds like some weirdness on the > drive. Have you tried the usual bit of rebooting your machine into the > recovery partition and doing both repair permissions and repair disk? Often > times this clears up things that just shouldn't be when it comes to drives. > > CB > > On 8/1/15 12:35 AM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: >> Sorry to keep spamming the list, but I’ve discovered something else now. >> When I go to my HD and do command i for information, interact with the >> scroll area, and it shows 74gb available, and only 45.91gb used. What is >> going on? >> Thanks for helping guys. >> >>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 1:20 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> That's not bad at all. There are some hidden things that can take up space. >>> How are you finding the free space count? There are a few hidden things >>> that can still throw off the overall math. The recovery partition and such >>> take about 1GB. I have a hidden folder called MobileBackups which is about >>> 1GB. If you're using MacPorts or the like your /opt and /private folders >>> can be a dozen or so GB. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 7/31/15 2:39 PM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: >>>> Ok, so I’ve downloaded and ran “Disk Doctor” as suggested by a lister. >>>> I’ve also enabled “calculate all sizes” and my applications folder is >>>> 17.28gb, Libraries is 5.17gb, system folder is 9.81gb, and my users folder >>>> is 17.43gb. Total space used should be down around 50gb, any ideas >>>> guys/gals? >>>> I’m still showing 81gb used. >>>> Any ideas? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:25 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Odd. Then your free space should reflect those files being gone. One >>>>> handy way to figure out where you space went is to open your hard drive, >>>>> make sure you are in list view (command+2) and then go to View Options >>>>> (command-J). That pops up a window with extra options checkboxes. At the >>>>> bottom of that list of checkboxes is one that says Calculate all sizes. >>>>> Check that one and then command ~ to jump back to your list view of the >>>>> hard drive and there will be a Size column. Usually for folders the size >>>>> is just "--" but the Mac will start totaling up all the files and replace >>>>> those "--" with actual numbers. You can then start to focus on the >>>>> folders with the most space used and start to drill down to figure out >>>>> what's using the most space. The Calculate all sizes beats on your hard >>>>> drive making (ad updating) all those totals so when you're done you'll >>>>> want to turn that back off. My Applications folder is 71GB while my OSX >>>>> 10.10.4 system is only 11GB. I would expect the bulk of the deletable >>>>> stuff to be either apps you no longer need or stuff under >>>>> Users/youraccountnamefolder. >>>>> >>>>> CB >>>>> >>>>> On 7/31/15 12:06 PM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: >>>>>> No it is empty. >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:00 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If you open the trash, is there still anything in it? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> CB >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 7/31/15 10:43 AM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>>>> I’ve just noticed the usage on my Mac HD is getting more full than I >>>>>>>> like. >>>>>>>> I’ve just deleted several gigs of data, and I am not seeing the space >>>>>>>> freed up like I expected. Only a couple hundred megs freed up. 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