MacBook Air missing hard drive space

I noticed that the free space on the hard drive on my Macbook Air has been quickly disappear even if I had not been adding lots of new files, certainly not enough to account for the 10s of gigabytes that disappeared last week. I cleaned it of useless media files, which gives him another 20 GB of space. The status bar it reflects accurately at first, but when I started the computer this morning, it had lost 30 GB of this adjustment.

After you run WhatSize DaisyDisk, I see that they have both claim that my Air uses Go 296, which is in agreement with the about this Mac, but when you look at the size of the actual folders, there is no way that they measure is added to this amount.

Using Get Info, I got the following:

14.43 applications gb

Users 42,45

System of 7.77

Library of 8.95

That all adds up to about 74 GB of used space. WhatSize actually gives me different numbers. Where in the world are the other 220 or so lack of gbs? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

(Note: although I typed this out, I noticed that about 8 GB of free space have disappeared in the status bar)

Here are a few screenshots of WhatSize and disk utility. Of THE claims that 'other' includes 283 GB, but I can't understand what is included in whatever measure it as 'other '.

If you want more accurate stats from the about this Mac, then to re-index your drive: Spotlight - how to re - index folders or volumes - Apple Support.

Free space on hard drive

1. see Lion-Lion/mountain/storage of the Mavericks display.

2. you can remove the data from your file except for the folder/Home/Library /.

3. visit The FAQ XLab and read the FAQ on the free space on your hard drive.

4. also see release space on your Mac OS X startup disk.

5 see where my disk space gone?.

6 see the storage view.

You must empty the trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.

You should consider to replace the drive with a larger. Check out OWC of readers, tutorials and boxes tools.

Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are.

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