After I rip my Blu-ray movies onto my hard drive, I transfer them to a separate SSD and delete the file on my hard drive and then empty the trash. I don’t know why, but my hard drive is being eaten alive by data and this is just since I started using make MKV. Does anyone know how I can figure out where this data is and how I can delete it that would be great.
Before anyone says, I’ve gone through my applications and nothing is over four gigs in data, and nothing adds up to the hundreds of gigabytes that are being taken up on my hard drive. I’ve tried the usual googling what the issue could be, but I just can’t seem to figure it out.
Huge Amounts Of Data On Hard Drive
Re: Huge Amounts Of Data On Hard Drive
This may be an issue with MacOS trying to protect you... Just because you deleted something, doesn't mean you REALLY wanted to delete it, after all. On another forum, a user was trying to figure out why his drive was hundreds of gigabytes short on space, and was thinking of reformatting it, only to discover that MacOS was hiding all those files he'd deleted, "just in case". If he'd actually needed the space, the oldest deleted files would be overwritten, but it didn't look like that.
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Re: Huge Amounts Of Data On Hard Drive
If you right-click on the 'Macintosh HD' icon your desktop (or in Finder) and pick Get Info on the 'Available' line listing how much free space is available there might be a number in parentheses that is the purgeable amount. This is the amount that MacOS knows can be deleted, but it just hasn't bothered to do it yet.
If your Macintosh HD icon isn't on your desktop, in Finder Settings, on the General tab you can turn it back on again.
If it for this reason that I generally do all my MakeMKV work on external drive. MacOS does a lot of fancy nonsense on the internal system drive. It doesn't do most of it on an external drive. On external drives, things work as we expect; a file takes up space, even when it is in the trash, but when you empty the trash, the space is freed up immediately.
As for actually getting back the 'purgeable' space, I find that if I don't let my Mac go to sleep and let it idle overnight, macOS often finds within itself the good grace to actually delete much of the stuff I asked it to delete any my 'purgeable' number will go down (although almost never to zero).
If your Macintosh HD icon isn't on your desktop, in Finder Settings, on the General tab you can turn it back on again.
If it for this reason that I generally do all my MakeMKV work on external drive. MacOS does a lot of fancy nonsense on the internal system drive. It doesn't do most of it on an external drive. On external drives, things work as we expect; a file takes up space, even when it is in the trash, but when you empty the trash, the space is freed up immediately.
As for actually getting back the 'purgeable' space, I find that if I don't let my Mac go to sleep and let it idle overnight, macOS often finds within itself the good grace to actually delete much of the stuff I asked it to delete any my 'purgeable' number will go down (although almost never to zero).