I’ve an exterior quantity (an SSD by Sandisk related by way of a usb-c cable) rated at 1TB. Finder (macOS 14.5) says the disk is full (when I attempt to add a file it errors with: No house left on system (28)
nonetheless once I have a look at the sizes of the directories on the exterior quantity, of which there are two, one is named Films and the opposite TV, the sizes don’t add up at ALL:
including these two folder sizes provides as much as a little bit over 700GB and nowhere close to the 1000GB used as claimed by "Get Data" in Finder on the quantity.
Now I notice there may very well be hidden directories which are hassle so I checked out these utilizing Cmd+Shift+. as you’ll be able to see within the following screenshot:
The one listing (of these hidden) that has greater than 10MB is .Highlight-V100 as may be seen right here:
Possibly the dimensions on disk right here is definitely a lot bigger than reported?
To unravel issues I additionally approached it from a distinct angle and ran the du and ncdu utilities within the terminal, the output of which is once more connected right here:
These outputs lead me to imagine the sizes of Films and TV may be roughly trusted, nonetheless for .Highlight-V100 and .Trashes sadly there appears to be no or incorrect data for a permission problem.
I’m out of my information right here – possibly that is an exFAT particular drawback? Ought to I attempt delete the Highlight listing as a primary step?
Any assist a lot appreciated! 🙂 Additionally if anyone wants any extra knowledge, simply remark. One final picture of the data output from disk utility:
