Disk Utility Showing Incorrect Free Space : OSX : How To Fix Tutorial

In this one, we look at why sometimes, Disk Utility in Mac OSX will show the wrong amount of free space on your hard drive.
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[@mikeschilli1088]

This was a life saver, thank you! Imagine you're a user with a 95% full disk, wanting to update the OS with security fixes, but the update process errs out because there's not enough space. Alas, removing files doesn't make a difference and you're stuck! Just because the Time Machine snapshotter thinks it knows better than the user and keeps hogging the space. Unbelievable.

[@RetroGamerVX]

Your welcome, thanks for the feedback :)

[@KennyEvansUK]

Thank you so much. It kept showing I had 77 gb left even after deleting over 100gb. I did this and have over 300gb free now. Incredible fix.

[@vonelliott]

THANK YOU - I searched around for about an hour to solve this issue and your video was not only identified the issue but gave me a fast solution and taught me something new. Cheers!

[@thomasj9700]

Wow, I just couldn't figure out where I was losing space prior to an upgrade, I found 10 snapshots! Thank you so much!

[@RetroGamerVX]

Your welcome, took me a while to work it out too.

[@lukewarm5356]

Absolute life saver, haven't seen this anywhere else. Thanks a million

[@Harrysound]

holy cow BANG 500 gig back just like that. I have a 4TB MacBook Pro just the drive space upgrade cost me £1200 alone so getting 1/8th of it back is amazing.

[@RobHitch]

Came across the same issue this morning "About this Mac", "Storage" was showing 130gb free, yet "Disk Utility" was showing 13gb free 😢. Followed your instructions and both now showing 130gb free! 🥳. Thank you! 🙏

[@RetroGamerVX]

Your welcome, glad it helped :)

[@franklima1269]

Thank you. This was exactly what I was looking for. 🙌

[@LoveTheLand]

thank you so much. It helped with maximizing a new partition. Very Much appreciated. 🙏

[@inwinternights]

I don't understand why they make this sort of thing so complicated but for all that's good in the world, thank you. Saved me from a wee breakdown X

[@testxyzable]

Finally a proper solution to this problem! Thanks a lot.

[@Refrusmrut]

Thank you so much! Helped me to keep my map running!

[@joeljorgensen4674]

OMG!!! Thank you so much for this! You are the man!!

[@carlosherrera3408]

Thank you so much this is the right anwer for my problem " Give this man a Beer"

[@lockexxx1969]

Thank you so much for your help.

[@kookosdrums]

From 19 Gb free to 822 Gb free. Goddamn stupid, but big thanks for this valuable tip!

[@RetroGamerVX]

Your welcome, took me ages to work this out.

[@EDuff30]

Thanks for this. I was trying to restore my Photos library (160GB) from Icloud and it was telling me that I did not have enough space - contrary to About this Mac (which told me that I had 400G free). The disk utility said I only had 70GB. I followed your instructions and all is well.
It is intereesting to note that I currently also have a problem with Time-Machine which is stuck in updating. Obviously these two propblems are related.
Why is this not more widely documented.

[@pacificprospector]

Thank you Sir. This made my life easier. You are awesome!

[@pacificprospector]

Any clue what to do when Terminal replies with: Failed to delete local snapshot '2024-05-24-161258".

[@RetroGamerVX]

Thanks

[@RetroGamerVX]

Afraid not, not come across that :(

[@pacificprospector]

@@RetroGamerVX FYI, I tried again later and eventually the Terminal command did delete them.

[@tentrip808]

THANK YOU SO EFFFFFING MUCH MATE WITH LOVE FROM USA

[@ev13191]

BLESS YOU FOR THIS

[@RetroGamerVX]

Your welcome :)

[@guygaron1162]

Very useful! Thank you!

[@RetroGamerVX]

Thankyou :)

[@pacbilly]

This is a good one, thanks!

[@RetroGamerVX]

Your welcome :)

[@chuckwn]

Wow thanks! Went from 18GB available to 71GB

[@RetroGamerVX]

Your welcome, glad it worked for you :)

[@jacobsmithbass]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@memsom]

So, if you use the up key, you can go back to the last command, keep pressing you go back farther for each press. Most users benefit from knowing this. If you did, just explain how it works. If you didn’t, it would cut out a lot of your typing.

[@RetroGamerVX]

Good shortcut tip, thanks, I use that in dos but didn't think to use here.

[@memsom]

@@RetroGamerVX I think it works better in MacOS because it is also retained if you close the terminal, and so you can still scroll through older commands later.

[@technerdbuddy4349]

thank you very much it was very helpful.......

[@RetroGamerVX]

Your welcome, thankyiu.

[@AlexeyF-hb2]

thank you!

[@davidfrost4669]

For me, tmutil listlocalsnapshots / results in: Snapshots for disk /: and nothing else. I have the same problem described. I previously ran first aid in recovery mode. I hope I can get this figured out to get my space back. Thanks for the video.

[@mechwar]

Saved me!!! Thnx

[@maras3844]

How to move snapshots to an external drive? Because after starting backup and when I use command to list local snapshots it is creating new one?

[@1990kurder]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

[@RetroGamerVX]

Your welcome :)

[@justinunterwurzacher8928]

best! thx a lot!

[@hakkimt5492]

after deleting snapshot how do you identify its deleted on disk please reply

[@rimsryon]

th u in advance