<< Solved >> Big Sur - Disk Space Not Accurate

[tk007b]

Hi guys,



I recently upgraded from Mojave to Big Sur. All went well but I noticed when having a bit of a clear down that no matter how many files I delete, the disk usage levels remain the same. For example, I have deleted more than 30GB but even after a reboot, the disk space usage has not changed.



Any ideas what might be causing this ??



Many thanks



Big Sur 11.6.1 using OpenCore

 

[Edhawk]

Local APFS Snapshots.

Read the 'Accepted Answer' in this Apple Developer forum post - https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/81171

 

[tk007b]

This command in terminal
tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 21474836480 4

... rescued about 150GB of free space in a few seconds (looks like it corrected the disk size after my deletes .. plus some), panic over!

 

[Edhawk]

Good to hear.

Are you still playing with your HP Microserver Gen7?

 

[tk007b]

Good to hear.

Are you still playing with your HP Microserver Gen7?

Bloody hell.. how did you remember that?. It's only used for holding archive data and switched off mainly!

 

[Edhawk]

Just recognised your user name! I know strange how the mind works sometimes.

Mine has Windows 10 installed, used as a Storage space, but it too is switched off mostly.

Good to see you are still running a Hackintosh.

 

[tk007b]

Just recognised your user name! I know strange how the mind works sometimes.

Mine has Windows 10 installed, used as a Storage space, but it too is switched off mostly.

Good to see you are still running a Hackintosh.

Thanks .. I've been running a Hackintosh on my Dell Inspiron since for a while back using Clover / Yosemite and was ok until Big Sur when i changed to Open Core. I've been trying to update my OC version (as I need to for Monterey) but am struggling (see https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/updating-opencore.316758/ ).

Another moderator told me to use Plisteditpro which has helped but I just can't get it to work. 0.7.5 comes out tomorrow so that's the one I need to focus on but if you have any suggestions on how I upgrade OC, i need an idiots guide, then I'm all ears. Thanks for your, continued, help!!! ;-) I'll keep googling to see if I can find any videos on how to do it.