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When it says X amount of GB Available at bottom of your Finder window

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When it says X amount of GB Available at bottom of your Finder window

levmc

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

Jan 18, 2019
Is that after Swap used or before swap used as shown in activity monitor?

Dave Braine

macrumors 68040

Mar 19, 2008 3,774

Warrington, UK

Doesn't Swap refer to memory as in RAM rather than space on your hard drive?

chscag

Contributor

Feb 17, 2008 4,276 1,593

Fort Worth, Texas

Swapped memory does take up hard drive space. I believe that's what @levmc is asking.

In my experience, the amount of drive space that is reported by the Finder does include the space taken up by the swap file.

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Dave Braine

macrumors 68040

Mar 19, 2008 3,774

Warrington, UK

Swapped memory does take up hard drive space.
Thanks. Didn't know that.

Nermal

Moderator
Staff member

Dec 7, 2002 19,050 1,509

New Zealand

Thanks. Didn't know that.
In a nutshell, it's memory that's been "swapped" to the hard drive.

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