Macbook storage weird problem

Cocolola

Hi. So I've done something to my (relatively new) Macbook Air this evening.

I was down to about 70 GB available so was clearing out some movies and pictures I didn't want. I was emptying Trash and at the same time I emptied the iPhoto trash and it seems something went wrong there. There was a folder left in the normal Trash called iPhoto and it had about 30 GB of videos in it. Tried to empty trash again, got the "cannot be deleted.. in use" message. Closed all apps, tried again, same thing. Did a limited bit of googling and decided to try Empty Trash Securely. This took forever to do, over an hour easily.

So anyway my issue now is that my Macbook is displaying that I have more storage available than the actual capacity, the laptop is 250GB and apparently I now have 257 GB available...

WTF am I after doing and how do I fix it?

My last backup is the 11th Jan if necessary.



Not sure if any more info is needed but let me know if so.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

Zcott

Maybe a simple one: did you try restarting?

Cocolola

Ya I restarted it and it ended up increasing the figure again.



But when I go for a system report I get this

RoyalMarine

go to disk utility, verify disk and repair disk.

Cocolola

You were right





This seems to be a Time Machine snapshots issue from what I've been reading, but honestly, I haven't a notion what that really means :pac:

I'm a bit nervous doing a disk repair, my knowledge of these things is near non existent so I have a fear of doing more damage! Here goes...

RoyalMarine

How did that work out? Any update?

Cocolola

Yes sorry for the delay! I also tried reindexing in Spotlight.

Bad pic from my phone after repair





Currently




The About This Mac tally doesn't add up properly either so there's still something amiss. Wonder if I should try turn off Time Machine? I've seen that mentioned elsewhere but some people caution on it.

I'm assuming the figure of 82.38 is what I take as the correct amount?


Also, I might have missed a folder but wanted to give a quick check of these, they add up to ~150GB.

shanec1928

Did you repair the the permissions from start up holding cmd + R to get to it and do it from there.

Cocolola

I repaired the disk that way but not the disk permissions. I'll try that this evening so, cheers.