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Re: How much free disk space does this MacBook Pro's HDD really have?

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Subject Re: How much free disk space does this MacBook Pro's HDD really have?
Date 2015-08-14 13:52 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-08-14, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <jJmdnbztqrZv-VDInZ2dnUU7-XGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> 
>   Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>>> On this 2012's 13.3" MacBook Pro with its updated Mac OS X v10.8.5 and
>>>> HDD, I am unable to get the exact free disk space to match each other.
>>>> http://i.imgur.com/KGIzE6z.jpg has a screen capture of all of them
>>>> together in action. I am confused. Which one is correct then?
>>>
>>> They both are. One is GB and the other is GiB.
>>>
>>> https://www.google.com/search?q=552GB%20in%20GiB
>>>
>>> 552 GB is just about 514GiB, close enough.
>
>> Thanks, but what about that 749.3 GB free in the top right corner under 
>> Mac's HD icon?
>
> No idea. I've never had drive icons on my desktop under OS X and I don't
> know where that label came from.

It's an option in View Options for the Desktop folder.

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