OS X El Capitan.
I have seen this thread, and it explains a bit (different reporting units), but there is an additional substantial discrepancy in the free HDD space of an external HD reported:
Get Info
: 11.22GBdf -h
: 1.3GiAbout This Mac - Storage
: 1.42 GB
So the differences between About This Mac
and df -h
can be according to the different units – but the Get Info
is heavily off?
Any ideas what is going on there?
I know for a fact that the df -h
and About This Mac
are correct as I can not copy anything larger than the 1.4 Gb on the disk.
ADDITIONAL INFO
These are the hidden files and folders – the rest is stuff I put there:
$ ls -la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rainerkrug staff 14340 Nov 10 14:51 .DS_Store
drwx------ 5 root staff 170 Nov 10 18:19 .Spotlight-V100
d-wx-wx-wt 2 root staff 68 Nov 10 17:36 .Trashes
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 rainerkrug staff 313 Mar 15 2015 .apdisk
drwx------ 15 root staff 510 Nov 10 18:24 .fseventsd
and their disk usage:
$ sudo du -sch .[!.]* *
16K .DS_Store
11M .Spotlight-V100
0B .Trashes
4.0K .apdisk
52K .fseventsd
Best Answer
You could try sudo mdutil -E / on the terminal, to reindex Spotlight.