You may notice that, at the bottom, “System Data” shows “Calculating”: it never ends calculating.
Restarting the mac I get the real available space
but after a few minutes or a couple of days, it goes back to 245.
I do not know if this maight be relevant, but the only changings I did after upgrading, was to replace the older xCode with xCode 16.2 (loading only the first default item).
Anybody seeing this happen? Thanks.
Run Disk Tools; make two or three Shotoff, Cait a minute, Power On.
On the other hands, Applications savec Clipborad to disk nowady twhen memory is missing), working with Firefow (sy 1 hour) fownloading stuff, viewing web pages. Hcek the amount of free rooms.
Quit FireFox, reboot and compare the new value…
Yes, I went several times through all what you now suggest. But it is not a problem of free space growing or diminishing. In fact “disk-capacity” (245 Gb) takes the place of free available space. Untill I do what also you suggest, or untill I just reboot: in these cases I get the real free space available (around 183 GB). Then after some time, even doing nothing, “disk-capacity” takes over (245 Gb).
Anyway thanks for replying.
If so, make a backup, format your SSD and re-install Sequoia.
BTW: what browser are-you using ? (if chrome, delete it and its associated djins…)
Do you have Cloud enabled ?
What is running now wih sequoia who do not existed 10 years ago (or with High Sierrra for example).
High Sierra does not have drive, cloud, Chrome, etc.
No running apps. Browser: Safari but always clearing History at quit.
No iCloud. Same extra apps running from 2012 (actually only XPress).
But, as I said, I have some doubts about xCode.
If you can’t find anything in Goggle then yes. My iMac from 2018 doesn’t make any crash log - ever. I also found no mention for this on Goggle. Xcode doesn’t change anything in Finder.
Actually one day I found something in Google and I followed the advice (booting in Safe mode and using Disk Utility): it worked all right, but after a few days the situation reappeared.
I do not know, but reading your entry let me think Intel, until I recon I certainly saw somthing like that in help, but I was focused on other thing at that moment and then forget.
After a simple quest on Google, I get: “At boot Press the Poxer Key”.
THERE IS NO POWer keY on MacBook Pro m1…
I boot pressing the key (ID Key ?) that was the Power Key in previous laptops and it worked !
Yes, I remember now that I went through the Power key. But, as it happens with simple re-booting, the available space gets all right; only to misbehave later on.
Welcome. May I ask you how you make it right again?
Last time it happened (last week), I saw that just restarting the machine one or several times does not fix the issue. Instead I had to boot in recovery mode, run Disk Utility (but I thing this step is not needed) and restart. After restarting, the values are still different, but things get OK all at once after a certain time (twenty minutes or so).
I haven’t bothered to fix it. I only noticed because the Java program reported something different than Finder in an obvious way. I don’t normally go poking around or inspecting my free space unless I’m doing something with big files.
