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<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn correction when I used a mac last it was back when mountain lion was out it was around 2012 or there abouts so I have been out of the mac sceen so to speak for about 4 or 5 years On 1/16/2018 1:17 AM, Simon Fogarty

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oups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of The wolf >> Sent: Tuesday, 16 January 2018 7:45 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com; 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: Re: mac partition q

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groups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of The wolf Sent: Tuesday, 16 January 2018 7:40 PM To: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn I can't ssh in to the machine my desktop that is running windows isn't s

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-Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of The wolf > Sent: Tuesday, 16 January 2018 7:40 PM > To: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn >

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I totally forgot about that do you have to have apple care to use that service? thanks Hank On 1/16/2018 1:31 AM, Marshall Scott wrote: Why don't you call Apple accessibility support at (877) 204-3930. They may be able to help. Marshall On Jan 15, 2018, at 11:45 PM, The wolf

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Why don't you call Apple accessibility support at (877) 204-3930. They may be able to help. Marshall > On Jan 15, 2018, at 11:45 PM, The wolf wrote: > > yes of course > how big should the recovery partition be? > surely not 127 gigs? > > On 1/13/2018 11:01 AM,

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it. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of The wolf Sent: Tuesday, 16 January 2018 7:45 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com; 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: mac par

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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of The wolf Sent: Tuesday, 16 January 2018 7:45 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com; 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn yes of course how big should the recovery partition be?

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as a second volume on the drive. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of The wolf Sent: Tuesday, 16 January 2018 7:40 PM To: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: mac par

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MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn yes of course how big should the recovery partition be? surely not 127 gigs? On 1/13/2018 11:01 AM, Marshall Scott wrote: > Have you taken the recovery partition into account? > Marshall > On Jan 12, 20

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:40 PM To: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn I can't ssh in to the machine my desktop that is running windows isn't stable so basicly your telling me that the only way to fix this is to go in the to the termonal? serusly?

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can you tell me where I go to resize the partition? or is that soemthing that I have to do in termonal? I don't want to accidently remove the recovery partition I just want to get this sorted out I'm sorry for blowing up this just has me seriusly frustrated if I could get some help via phone

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yes of course how big should the recovery partition be? surely not 127 gigs? On 1/13/2018 11:01 AM, Marshall Scott wrote: Have you taken the recovery partition into account? Marshall On Jan 12, 2018, at 10:13 PM, The wolf wrote: Hello yes I am using High Sierra On

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I was out of town and am just now getting to my emails On 1/13/2018 9:55 AM, E.T. wrote:    If in fact the drive in the old 2009 Mac is an SSD. If spinning, its macOS Extended. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges

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so where is my other 127 gigs then? something is taking half my friggen hard drive space grrr On 1/13/2018 9:04 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: What you're missing is the way Apple does the math. Your available storage space is being dynamically allocated

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can you give me a call? I can give you my number off list On 1/13/2018 9:04 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: What you're missing is the way Apple does the math. Your available storage space is being dynamically allocated between what is actually used and what's still available

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I can't ssh in to the machine my desktop that is running windows isn't stable so basicly your telling me that the only way to fix this is to go in the to the termonal? serusly? On 1/13/2018 9:02 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: You need to learn to use diskutil from the command

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@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn Hello total drive it is saying that it is 124 gig capassity it is using 82 gig but the drive is a 250 gb so something is taking over 100 gigs On 1/12/2018 3:21 PM, E.T. wrote:    How do you know what you are missing? You did not say how

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Kilburn Sent: Sunday, 14 January 2018 5:38 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn Hi, To clarify. What's likely happened here is that when you attempted to create the BootCamp partition, something went wrong. Obvious, I know, but it needs to be said first

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but if you can only see one partition under the disk partition when in disk utility and if you see what the partition is named, it should have a size in the label of the physical drive / partition level that is the top most level of the drive. -- The following information is important for

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@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn I did that all ready see earlier message On 1/12/2018 5:46 PM, E.T. wrote: > Hank, >    Go to Finder, do a command shift c to bring up the drives, do a > command i on the drive and tell me what the 3 numbers are. Capacity, &g

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@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn the mac book should show a capasity of 250 gigs not 124.92 gigs there is still something not right with this On 1/12/2018 5:33 PM, E.T. wrote: >    If he partition is 125g, 25 used and 100g available then that adds > up up 250g. Am I m

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@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E.T. Sent: Saturday, 13 January 2018 1:34 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn If he partition is 125g, 25 used and 100g available then that adds up up 250g. Am I missing something

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And the size showing in disk utilities? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of The wolf Sent: Saturday, 13 January 2018 12:51 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn only 1

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By any chance have you instaled bootcamp / windows to your machine before? I mean do you have a bootcamppartition on the drive already that might be taking up half your drive? Sent from my iPhone > On 14/01/2018, at 11:39 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > I think

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Hi! I think you have to resize or re-partition the mac and start over. That’s the easiest solution. /A > 13 jan. 2018 kl. 00:23 skrev The wolf : > > capassity > > 124.92 gigs > > 98.6 gigs > > available > > 124 megabites > > purgeable > > 26 gigs > used > I am

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Have you taken the recovery partition into account? Marshall On Jan 12, 2018, at 10:13 PM, The wolf wrote: > > Hello yes I am using High Sierra > > > > On 1/12/2018 10:01 PM, E.T. wrote: >>You are running High Sierra? If the drive is not an SSD then you are >>

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If in fact the drive in the old 2009 Mac is an SSD. If spinning, its macOS Extended. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan

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Hi, To clarify. What's likely happened here is that when you attempted to create the BootCamp partition, something went wrong. Obvious, I know, but it needs to be said first. So, you now have the Macintosh HD partition using up half the space of the 250 GB drive and the rest is unallocated

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The wolf writes: > Hello yes I am using High Sierra Which means that you're using apfs, which is a whole new ball of wax. It's not even that clearly explained anywhere that I've found between it's concepts of drives, volumes, partitions, and containers. diskutil is the best tool, promise. > >

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What you're missing is the way Apple does the math. Your available storage space is being dynamically allocated between what is actually used and what's still available for use by Mac or some other installation, like BootCamp. At least, that's what apfs is doing. The wolf writes: > the mac book

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You need to learn to use diskutil from the command line. This is best accomplished by ssh into the Mac from another machine, because you're more likely to get good screen reader support that way. Voice Over isn't the best when run in Terminal, which is the native way to do this. Note that

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are created on the drive -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of The wolf Sent: Saturday, 13 January 2018 11:57 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: mac partition questiohn Hello total drive it is saying

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If you go in to computer and find your harddrive or possibly Macintosh hd, And do a get info, command key I gives you get info, Then work your way through and find the size and storage useage of your drive. Unless you have a lot of stuff being stored on your drive then something sounds wrong.

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Hello yes I am using High Sierra On 1/12/2018 10:01 PM, E.T. wrote:    You are running High Sierra? If the drive is not an SSD then you are probably using macOS extended. Mine is formatted to APFS so the partition tab is different. So I am not sure what you should look for. From E.T.'s

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disk aid was one of the verry first things that I tried running On 1/12/2018 6:03 PM, E.T. wrote:    Too many things going on over here. So you are missing 125g. Have you run First Aid? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the

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your not getting it my hard drive is 250 gigs total 125 gigs out of that 250 gigs is the main mac partition so you take 250 minus 125 and you are left with 125 gigs that are not showing up let me know if this doesn't make any sense and I can try to explain it On 1/12/2018 5:55 PM, E.T. wrote:

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It all adds up to 250. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Contact E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 1/12/2018

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250 gb capasity minus 125 gigs for the intire mac partition= 125 gigs there is still 125 gigs that should be free is thismaking any sense? On 1/12/2018 5:46 PM, E.T. wrote: Hank,    Go to Finder, do a command shift c to bring up the drives, do a command i on the drive and tell me what the 3

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I did that all ready see earlier message On 1/12/2018 5:46 PM, E.T. wrote: Hank,    Go to Finder, do a command shift c to bring up the drives, do a command i on the drive and tell me what the 3 numbers are. Capacity, available and used. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you

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the total capasity of the mac drive is 250 gigs the mac partition is 125 gigs the capasity should be around 250 gigs on the main mac partition 125 gigs is still not showing up On 1/12/2018 5:33 PM, E.T. wrote:    If he partition is 125g, 25 used and 100g available then that adds up up 250g.

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the mac book should show a capasity of 250 gigs not 124.92 gigs there is still something not right with this On 1/12/2018 5:33 PM, E.T. wrote:    If he partition is 125g, 25 used and 100g available then that adds up up 250g. Am I missing something? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is

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If he partition is 125g, 25 used and 100g available then that adds up up 250g. Am I missing something? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it."

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only 1 partition is showing On 1/12/2018 4:30 PM, E.T. wrote:    In Disk Utility in the drive table, what is shown under the Mac's internal drive (250g)? Just one partition, or more than one? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all

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In Disk Utility in the drive table, what is shown under the Mac's internal drive (250g)? Just one partition, or more than one? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off

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capassity 124.92 gigs 98.6 gigs available 124 megabites purgeable 26 gigs used I am still missing 100 gigs some where on this drive my drive on the mac is a 250 gig drives Hank On 1/12/2018 4:11 PM, E.T. wrote:    Dump the trash and check again. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is

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Dump the trash and check again. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Contact E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On

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Hello total drive it is saying that it is 124 gig capassity it is using 82 gig but the drive is a 250 gb so something is taking over 100 gigs On 1/12/2018 3:21 PM, E.T. wrote:    How do you know what you are missing? You did not say how much space is used. Do a Get Info on the drive. From

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How do you know what you are missing? You did not say how much space is used. Do a Get Info on the drive. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it."