macos – Mac Excessive Sierra large disc utilization discrepancy


Upgraded my macbook professional 2012 laptop computer from Mountain Lion to Excessive Sierra lately.
Now the 256G SSD continues to expire of house.
DU reveals 127G used.

But Finder and System data present 255G used. I’ve timemachine native snapshots turned off. The truth is I’ve tm turned off.

I’ve rebuilt the system Highlight indexes a number of instances, shutdown a number of instances, eliminated chrome, eliminated every little thing that I can, however to no avail.
I can reside with it besides some apps use that system data and will not let me obtain or begin new paperwork due to solely megabytes remaining.

Taking a look at different posts I did have an issue with a backup that took perpetually and I interrupted. The linked publish signifies that in /Volumes the TM had an enormous backup picture. My /Volumes has a symbolic hyperlink to Macintosh HD. This does not appear right to me.

sh-3.2# cd /Volumes
sh-3.2# ls -la 
whole 0 
drwxr-xr-x@  3 root  wheel 96 Sep 13 14:14 . 
drwxr-xr-x  30 root  wheel  960 Sep  6 09:32 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    1 Sep 13 14:14 Macintosh HD -> /

Sorry no screenshots, cuz no house to take action!!

Hope somebody will help. If it is so simple as shifting ahead to a more recent model, please let me know.

Related Articles

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Latest Articles