Lost Hard Drive Space

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machope theworldmachope theworld
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in macOS edited January 2014
Hey! I lost about 12 GB of hard drive space after I had to force-shutdown (it got stuck during the normal shutdown) my Macbook Pro (2.2 Ghz, 2GB RAM, 128 VRAM).



I was told to use WhatSize to look for the folder taking up space. I found a folder that's about 19GB big:



Hard Drive > Users > Administrator > Library > FileSync > 001b63ac6bf4 > (my .Mac account name)_iDisk > bands



I was wondering if this is the problem. If it is, can I delete the files in the folder?

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    cakecake Posts: 1,010member
    This happened to me the other day when I updated QuickTime (My G5 froze, I hit the button to reboot and suddenly I had this massive new file).



    My file was 400GB - taking up most of my new 500GB drive.



    Since I was migrating over to the new 500GB drive from my old 320GB drive and I had everything backed up to an identical 320GB drive using SuperDuper!, I just threw away the huge file in my FileSync folder and hoped for the best.

    I rebooted after emptying the Trash and everything was back to normal.
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    machope theworldmachope theworld Posts: 145member
    ok

    thanks, i'll take the plunge and delete the files. i guess i'll see the results in a few minutes...





    UPDATE: It worked! Thanks!
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