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My 1 TB SSD drive on my iMac 27 inch says I have used 776 Gigs for Documents, but in reality it is 156 KB. !! Why is this happening , and how can I fix this ?
I ignore it and assume I can use the Hard Drive anyway, as the real total usage is more like 250 Gigs for everything I have.
Anybody have this experience and found a solution ??
Try the following: How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support. It might take a while before the sizes are updated.
Try the following: How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support. It might take a while before the sizes are updated.
What macOS version is your iMac running?
The Storage eye-candy is known to have inaccuracies in some macOS versions.
for example: I noticed inaccuracies late in Mojave, in Big Sur and early on in Monterey
If you want an accurate list of storage usage, give OmniDiskSweeper a try.
Just a thought ....
Do a Get Info on the drive and look for a large Purgeable statement/line.
There are time macOS will sequester space if a large amount of it has been deleted. There may be other reasons for Purgeable, but Purgeable is a strange kind of available space
I found what you indicated, a Purgeable space of 2Gigs. But this in no way accounts for 776 Gigs used. - for Documents.
If there was a way to actually see what the 776 gigs represented, I could possibly delete it. But since I believe nothing is there, finding it would be useless. Why this is happening is a better problem to solve. And strangely, I cannot find any info on why this is occurring. Thanks……
david
See if anything at > Free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support helps.
Not applicable to my issue at all. I don’t need to clean or remove Documents that don’t exist.
Where are you seeing 776 GB of doc's?
Please include more info including screenshots.
In my Storage. It claims 776 Gigs of space is occupied with Documents. No screen shots required. This is clear.
iMac 27inch Hard Drive showing wrong information about Documents
