High Sierra disk space issues
Am I missing something with my hard drive space? I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 on my MacBook Pro and trying to clear some disk space to install something.
Disk info says I have 30 GB free out of 250 GB. When I analyse the disk, I'm hardly using any space at all.
Any ideas?
Solution 1:
This seems to be a high Sierra Bug it is not even fixed in the latest software update which is 10.3.1 I guess. I have the latest version installed and ever tim it shows that system uses up 40GB even though I have 20GB worth of hoots it always shows 0KB. So I don't know how to fix this but hope that another software update fixes this.Try running df in terminal located in Applications>Utilities it should work because it works fine for me.
Solution 2:
After contacting Apple, they suggested to book into safe boot, and then reboot into normal mode. This apparently clears some caches and appeared to resolve my problem
- Reboot the Mac
- As soon as it reboots, hold the shift key until the login menu appears
- Login to your normal account and use for about 5-10 mins
- Reboot and login as normal