“Being the idiot that I am, I accidentally wiped an external drive (Seagate Backup Plus Slim 1.5 TB) using Disk Utility in OSX. Does Disk Utility Erase Everything on the Hard Drive? The goal of this article is to help Mac users recover erased data in the quickest and most cost-effective manner possible, which is why we describe two different solutions, each suitable for a slightly different data loss scenario. Why? Because there’s a lot of misinformation online when it comes to data recovery solutions for Mac. Not exactly the most secure position to be in, but it is around the volume I was looking at before I started noticing problems.Have you accidentally erased a hard drive using Disk Utility on Mac and are wondering if you can recover it? You’re not the only one! Every day, thousands of users around the world search for solutions that would let them recover an erased hard drive on Mac, but only a few find what they’re looking for. I have no idea if this was actually the problem or not but since doing this I have about 5GB out of the 120 my MBA came with.
I deleted some massive files there, then opened up google drive and told it to unsync offline storage. This freed up about 200 MB of space that was promptly used up and vanished before my eyes.įollowing that, I downloaded grand perspective and it didnt really tell me anything I didnt already know, but while using it I realized that I had had dropbox synced to my laptop this whole time.
The first thing I did was open up disk utility and repair the drive. Where the hell is my storage going? How can I fix this?Įdit: OK so I think my problem might be resolved. I know I have space on this hard drive, I've deleted countless GB of my own files from it but whenever I go to check the storage, the first time it'll show it accurately as having space but shortly after it reports I have maybe 12 MB free.
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