Sometimes you may want to know how much free space is left on your Mac’s internal drive. For example, if you’re about to download a huge file or want to transfer multiple movies and videos to your Mac, it helps to have an idea of the available storage space.
This handy tutorial will show you five easy ways to check the free disk space on your Mac. You can also use these methods to know the available space of an external drive connected to your Mac.
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1. Open the About This Mac window.
Here’s the easiest way to check the available free space on your Mac:
- press the Apple icon () at the top left of the screen and select About this Mac.
- Go to warehouse.
- It shows the total amount of free space available on your Mac’s internal drive or other currently connected drives.
If you’re running out of disk space, follow our tips to free up disk space on your Mac.
2. Check the system information
System Information is another built-in tool that makes it incredibly easy to get storage details of your Mac’s hard drive, SSD, or other attached drives. Here’s how:
- When holding the possibility button, click the Apple icon () top left of the screen.
- click system information.
- Expand the hardware Section.
- click warehouse to view your drive’s capacity, free space, and other related information.
3. Use Get Info in Finder
For this to work, make sure you have your Mac’s drive displayed in the Finder sidebar. If not, open finderand from click Finder > Preferences from the menu bar. Then click on sidebar and make sure the name of your Mac is selected under Locations
Then follow these steps to view the storage information:
- click the name of your Mac in the Finder sidebar under Locations.
- Control-click the main volume and click get information.
- Expand the General to view total and available capacities.
You can follow the same steps to view the available space for other connected USB drives, hard drives, SSDs, etc. In case you encounter any difficulties, here is a guide on how to fix external drives not showing up on Mac.
4. Use Quick Look on the desktop
You can use Quick Look in the Finder or on the desktop. To do this, however, first make sure you are in the Finder and click in the top menu bar Finder > Preferences. Activate next hard drives of the View these items on the desktop section of General Tab. It will now start showing your Mac’s internal drive icon on the desktop.
Once the internal drive icon appears on your Mac’s desktop, click on it to select it and press Place. This will show you the total storage size and what’s still available in the Quick Look popup.
5. Run a terminal command
If you’re familiar with Terminal, you can use one command to find out how much free disk space is available on your Mac. First, open Terminal on your Mac. After that, type or copy and paste the following command and press the Input Key:
df -hIt shows the sizes of your various Mac volumes. In most cases, the numbers for /System/Volumes/Data will be the one that represents how much space is used and unused for your main volume.
Optionally, you can copy this file path from the terminal (/System/Volumes/Data), go to Finder, press Cmd + Shift + Gpaste the copied folder and press the Input to see the volume whose data was displayed.
Check the available disk space on your Mac
These are all ways you can use the built-in macOS tools to check the total free space on your Mac’s internal drive and all other drives connected to it. While these tips will come in handy for most, if you want to dig deeper into this data, you can use one of the several third-party apps that help you check storage space on your Mac.
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