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• When I go to the store, about this Mac, I see that my computer is invaded by "others".

  How can I get rid of these 'other' files? Help!

  

  See if any of the following items helps to clarify what this 'Other' storage element is all about:

  • What is "Other" and "Purgeable" about this Mac? -Apple Support
  • What is the other storage on Mac OS X and how to remove it? -igeeksblog.com
  • What the 'Other' storage space in Mac OS X, & how to clarify - OSXDaily

• RAID is no longer present in the storage "about this mac".

  After upgrading to Sierra my SoftRAID(4) drive does not appear in the about this mac storage section. I asked soft raid and their answer is that it's an apple problem

  If you haven't already done so, disconnect the SoftRAID(4) drive and stop your Mac. While the Mac is turned off, connect the player SoftRAID(4). Then restart your Mac. See if it appears in disk utility.

• about this mac > storage reports my "movies" I think

  Im working on my MBA Yosemite 10.10.5

  When I use the "about this mac > storage ' it show 80 GB of 'movies'"

  However, I see only about 8 GB of files of actual film in the folder 'movies '.

  I don't think I have 72 GB of additional movie in the hard disk files.  is it wrong? is there a way I can use the finder to find all these 80GB... There are so many file extensions that could be considered a film or video

  For the other category in the display of information storage, see this support article. If the display appears to be inaccurate, try to rebuild the Spotlight index.

  Empty the trash if you don't have it already done. If you use iPhoto, emptying his trash internal everything first:

  ▹ iPhoto empty the trash

  In pictures:

  ▹ Show of the recently deleted ▹ file delete all

  Do the same thing in other applications like Aperture, with an internal feature of the trash. Then, restart the computer. Temporarily, which will free up space.

  According to the documentation from Apple, you need at least 9 GB of free space on the boot volume (as shown in the Infolog) for normal operation, not the mythical 10%, 15% or any percentage. You also need enough space to allow the growth of the data over. There is little or no advantage in terms of performance to get more free space than the minimum Apple recommends. Storage space you'll never use is wasted space.

  When Time Machine backs up a Mac laptop, some free space will be used to make a snapshots the, who are backups of deleted files recently. The space occupied by the local snapshots is declared as available by the Finder and should be considered as such. In the view of storage of the information system, snapshots appear them as backups. The snapshots are deleted automatically when they expire or when free space becomes less than a certain level. You don't need to usually and should not, remove snapshots them yourself. If you have followed the bad advice to disable snapshots the running a shell command, you may have ended up with a large amount of data in the other category. Ask for instructions in this case.

  See this support article for some easy ways to free up storage space. A common waste of space is old backups iTunes to mobile devices. As shown in this support article, select the devices tab in the iTunes preferences window, select the backup that you want to remove and click on delete the backups. Keep at least a backup of each device you use yet.

  You can use a tool such OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore the volume and discover what is take up space. You can also delete files with it, but not unless you don't know you know what you remove and that all data is stored safely. This means that you have several backups, not one. Note that CESO works with OS X 10.8 or later.

  Deletion of files inside a photo library or iTunes will damage the library. Such a library should be changed within the application that created it. It is the same for e-mail files.

  Go further than if the problem is not resolved by the steps above.

  ODS cannot see the whole file system when you run simply by double-clicking; He sees only the files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you must run it as root.

  Back up all the data now.

  Install the application in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it runs.

  Triple-click any where in the text line below on this page to select, then copy the selected text in the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination.

  security execute-with-privileges /A*/OmniDiskSweeper.app/*/M*/* 2>&-

  Launch the Terminal application integrated in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  Paste in the Terminal window by pressing command + V. You will be asked for your login password.

  The application window opens behind other open windows. When you scan a volume, the window will finally show all files in all folders, sorted by size. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.

  I do not recommend that you make a habit of doing. Do not delete anything as root. If something should be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then remove by safer alternatives. If in doubt, leave it alone or ask for advice.

  When you are finished with the app, he quit and also to leave Terminal.

• About this Mac window

  A week ago I updated my Mac Mini end of 2014 to Sierra and, among other drawbacks, I found that the "to comments of this Mac window" doesn´t show when it is called. In addition, the button of the substitution of Apple ban on which they consider unreliable applications (i. e.  those not manufactured by Apple or not using the iTunes channel) is now gone and I won't unintentionally control I have in my computer. In this case, this means that I can't update latest version of Penny Fletcher of his useful Multimarkdown application.

  You can adjust your settings to allow internet content to other websites by clicking on System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General and down, adjust the setting "allow applications downloaded on:

  To call ' about this Mac' Panel, press the black Apple > about this Mac

• About this mac shows twice as much audio I have in iTunes

  I get errors that my boot drive is almost full on my macbook air relatively new (~ 4 months). When I went to study, I found that about this mac storage tab showed 42,96 audio GB 36,33 GB of apps, 33,42 GB else and insignificant small photos, movies, and backups.

  I'm not sure about 'the other', but the Apps and the Audio seem that they shouldn't take much more space. I'm not sure of what should be automatically installed programs on this macbook, but I downloaded additional applications less than 5, so I don't know if it should take 1/4 of my disk space. In addition, I wouldn't have too much audio that is not music, and when I go into iTunes it says I have about 19 GB of music.

  Can someone tell me what is the source of this problem? I don't know that I should not have problems of storage on a machine this new.

  vieirac2 wrote:

  I'm not sure about "the other".

  Other is not in one of the named categories

• About this Mac

  ' In: about this Mac ' what verification of storage tab almost all of my space is now up to the OTHER. What has happened since I reinstalled OSX 10.11.5 and restored from my time Machine later back up.  Previously, my files were allocated split more evenly between Photos, Audio & other movies. Any ideas how to get the machine to read properly the allocation of file type?

  BEFORE THE RESTORATION

  

  AFTER THE RESTORATION

  

  Try to rebuild the Spotlight Index, Apple explains how to rebuild the Spotlight to your Mac - Apple Support index

• About this Mac - disappeared from the iMac

  G ' Day

  So, I'm no good with hard things on my iMac (only read knows the basics) However, for the last month (and a bit) I have not been able to access about this Mac.

  No matter how many times I click the Apple in the upper left corner of my screen, when I click on the about this Mac, the icon will blink but do not load or display on the Mac.

  When I click on the apple icon, I get the following options:

  About this Mac (which doesn't work, period, in the end, point)

  System Preferences

  App Store

  Recent articles

  Force quit

  Sleep

  Restart

  Stop

  and

  Close the session

  Everything above works fine, no problem - but I can't go about this Mac to initialize work, open, nothing, nada.

  Can someone help me solve this problem on my iMac.

  Thanking you in advance.

  Hello

  Your profile says your Mac works v10.10.4. There is a v10.10.5 update available.

  It may be a question of OS X update.

  Open system preferences > App Store, then click on: check now

• Messages/questions about this mac

  I have a late 2008 macbook unibody. A few months ago I updated and it worked find. 8g memory on El Capitan. My wife has a macbook 2009 (white) and he has had some problems. It is currently running 10.5.8 (Leopard?). I decided that it would be a good idea to create a profile on my computer because it is higher and actually works. So, I took out his hard drive and used the migration assistant to move its data to a profile on my computer. Everything seemed to work very well and everything going on above.

  Now, I learned today that I can't use Messages. For some reason, I think he's trying to open its version which may have migrated from his computer. I don't know why he would do that and I can't understand how to solve. I can't remove it because it tells me that it is used by OS X and cannot be deleted. I've attached screenshots of the error I get. I have since deleted his user profile to try to remedy, but it did not help. I'm still stuck with all applications and files that came with the migration. I don't know how to remove one of these.

  There is another question. Since I migrated the data, I was no longer able to open "about this mac". Or from the top menu, or the finder by using system information. Really at a loss here.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  

  

  System profiler does not open on my iMac. Apple support communities

  OS X: about system information and System Profiler - Apple Support

• 138 GB of movies 'about this Mac' show, but virtually no show of movies in "Finder."

  My "about this Mac" shows Go 138 picked up by movies, yet when I search films in the Finder, there is only a handful, would explain only a fraction of the 138 GB.  I checked the iTunes account and could not find any large storage either. I run OS X version 10.11.3 on a 2010 Macbook pro and my 500 GB SATA is almost full. This triggered off by checking the 138 GB volume... How can I find more info on the 138 GB?

  The program that generates the display has a bug inside and should not be used.  Often a re-indexing of Spotlight will correct:

  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT201716

  Ciao.

• About this mac OS 10.11.6 but app store shows still says download available

  I downloaded the latest update. I used to problems since the first upgrade to El Capitan in what I usually feel a white screen to halfway through the update, closing force downwards and then reopen mode without fail to complete.

  This time, I see the current version about this mac, but it doesn't show not as having been downloaded on the app store and it keeps invites me to update.

  Deeply puzzled.

  South Wales

  Try to install the update combo independent 10.11.6, of the App Store.

  Download update of OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Combo

• Storage on screen tab "about this Mac" never ends calculate

  On my MBP 15 "retina running macOS Sierra, when I opened"About this Mac", then click on the button 'Storage', the line that represents my hard drive appears with the word"Calculation"... "in the bar gray, but nothing else happens.  It's as if she never ending calculate, it's just stuck there.  Sometimes If I reboot, then go back, it will show the distribution of documents, photos, etc., but not always.  In the screenshot below, the window had been opened a good 30 minutes.

  

  ... And Yes, I 'm on a Wi - Fi connection and strong.  :-)

• About this Mac reads the false news?

  Hello

  My Mac's Go 247 apps, yet I franco departure 499 404 GB. I read it wrong, or is the about this Mac glitched? Here is a picture of what I see.

  

  Thank you!

  The Apple article below should help.

  Rebuild the index on your Mac - Apple Support Spotlight

• After that upgrade to El Capitan about this Mac does not work"

  After the upgrade to El Capitan by clicking on about this Mac, nothing happens and by double clicking on System profiler I get the error message from the Application "System information" cannot be opened.  I ran disk utility, tried in safe mode and as a guest and all user are the same.

  It is a late 2008 MacBook.  It's on 10.5.8.  I did a clean install of 10.6.3 with upgrades to 10.6.8 to give birth to El Capitan.  According to me, that he was working at that time.  Then, I migrated the user of a backup image of the 10.5.8 account. Who could have when it stopped, but I'm not sure.

  I had two newspapers @ pastbin.com/Mca6LS4H

  Hello mrtrytofixit,

  Thank you for reaching out to the Community Support from Apple. I know how it is important to be able to rely on public services provides your Mac and I want to help you get things working again. With troubleshooting, you have already done, it seems that it is a systemic problem.

  From there, what I recommend is reinstall OS X El Capitan using OS X Recovery on your Mac. It should not remove or erasure of your data, but it is recommended that you make backup before you do incase of an emergency.

  These articles will guide you through the backup and reinstallation:
  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
  How to reinstall OS X

  If you have any questions or concerns, inform the community. We are all here to help.
  Best regards.

• 'About this Mac'-> 'Storage' shows I've got 157 GB of Apps

  

  'About this Mac'-> 'Storage' shows I've got 157 GB of Apps, that has exhausted most of my storage space.

  The problem is that I don't think that having many applications on my Mac. No idea why it's like this?

  BTW, the size of the folder/applications is less than

  ➜ ~ du-sh/applications

  11 G/applications

  He gets these numbers of index Spotlight. Which may indicate that your index is corrupted. You can try to rebuild:

  Rebuild the index on your Mac - Apple Support Spotlight

  .