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Response by poster: Aha! For some reason it hadn't occurred to me that Disk Inventory X wouldn't catalog items I don't have permissions for. posted by brightghost to Computers & Internet (15 answers total)
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Can someone advise me on how to troubleshoot this? I've been doing manual backups since this problem rendered Time Machine useless, but I'm *really* hoping the answer doesn't require reformatting the drive if I can avoid it. It doesn't seem like it should need to be following any symlinks to get to the rest of my top-level directories, broken or not. My knowledge of Unix directory structures is fuzzy, but this is clearly very much not right. That said, I don't know where these botched files would be that they aren't showing up in the drive inventory.Īnd most significantly, This previous question seems relevant on the advice given there I ran sudo du -hd1 /, and troublingly this is the result:ĭu: Can't follow symlink cycle from /dev/fd/3 to /dev/fd/3 It's very likely this space is the result of a botched transfer of the old drive's contents I tried to use OS X's Migration Assistant, unsuccessfully, and resorted to transfering everything manually in the Finder. But not knowing Time Machine's internal mechanics this may be a red herring. I *think* this missing space can be localized to my home folder, because if I try to run a Time Machine backup with everything else excluded (external drives, Applications, Dev., other users and whatever Time Machine's definition of "System Files and Applications" is) it still errors out telling me the backup will require 327GB of space. Any idea what could be causing this doubled figure that's not showing up in D.I.X.? From what I understand any hidden/cache files should show up there. I've checked into it with Disk Inventory X, and interestingly, it's initial drive selection/overview pane gives a similar figure (318GB), but once it runs its scan it shows only 184 GB accounted for, which seems proper.
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I have a 500GB hard drive in my computer, a Core Duo iMac, and after recently moving from a 160GB drive, the finder is telling me 342GB is used. (First, I have looked at the previous questions on the topic, and this isn't your run-of-the-mill bloated cache file from what I can tell.)