Also, do you have auto backup turned on in Time Machine? You may try unchecking it and leave it off for a day, then turn it back on. No two ways about it, its confusing due to the caching, snapshots and iCloud. My photos app show 199MBs in the finder but only 154MBs under about this Mac> Manage storage. Do you have everything turned on in iCloud >system preferences? Also do you have OPTIMIZED STORAGE turned on in ABOUT THIS MAC> MANAGE>RECOMMENDATIONS? You do this by going into iTunes>preferences and selecting ADVANCED tab ( make sure your logged in ) then check second tab down OPTIMIZE STORAGE. I only keep 40 GBs or less on my BOOT DRIVE. Yes, you will, yes it fluctuates, yes and no, snapshots uses what it needs, I have 44MBs in iTunes and it shows 7, yes you can stop it and delete them, but I don't recommend it, you need to use the terminal app, you can type in: tmutil listlocalsnapshots / just to look. How can I get my 30-ish gigs back? Please help. Another thing, the System numbers do change every so often. Or somewhere there are duplicates of everything. I'm currently running 10.13.2 of High Sierra and it originally came with Sierra.
#Format hard drive on mac for 7.5gb file update#
My only guess is an update screwed things up.
I've also deleted the music but that just added it all to System. I backed-up Time Machine just before taking that picture so it's not local snapshots. I've tried reindexing Spotlight, and First Aid, neither of which did anything. So if the iTunes and System were empty, I wouldn't have a problem. Documents is showing the correct amount of things I've put on the hard drive. Note that nothing shows up in the iTunes spot but there is music if you open iTunes. I did have trouble with iTunes creating duplicates of every file, but I fixed that. Maybe about a month ago the hard drive (Disk Utility) showed the correct amount of space used. I've only put 13.5gb of music, 15.5 gb of videos and not even a gigs worth of pictures and Pages documents on so far. I've been trying to get the hard drive on my MacBook Air (purchased less than two months ago) to show the correct used space.
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