Incorrect storage info - yet I've not solved!

Hello!

I had this problem for some time.

"In"about this Mac"-" storage "", he says I have 77 free GB to 999 GB. " This is not correct, for if I click on "go" in the top menu of Apple, then "computer", the Macintosh HD said 922GB, but the individual files added without even adding up to 500 GB. This means that the storage news are about 500 GB of evil!

However the Macintosh HD 2 (my drive to another internal), seems to show the correct numbers, but my main drive is waaayy off.

I had this problem a few months back and I want to fix now because my Time Machine backups do not work properly from the computer think there is not enough space to copy on.

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What I've tried so far.

I tried to re-indexing of spotlight with various techniques, also in the Spotlight menu in the preferences and the inside of the Terminal (here, I typed "sudo mdutil EI / '), but it doesn't seem to work.

I think there is something wrong with the Time Machine, that perhaps it adds information file upp to the essential motivation or something (idk?).

Can someone help me with this problem please? I would be very grateful!

Because now I can't back up my computer properly and it was a while since I did

BTW, I use OSX El Capitan version 10.11.3, Mac Server minin (end of 2012).

/ Daniel

Download and run OmniDiskSweeper as root. You should be able to tell what is take up space.

sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper

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