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Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: JPK
Date: May 22, 2023 04:36PM
MBA M1 1TB drive showing 891GB used.

I went through and deleted probably 50gb of files, emptied trash and the 'available' and 'used' hasn't changed. Then I dumped 8,100 images in Photos. No change.

Is there something more I need to do?

Are there any log or cache files I should look to dump to clear up some more space. I am hesitant to run a "cleaner' program.

JPK
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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: Tiangou
Date: May 22, 2023 04:38PM
Make sure that your backups are up to date.

Then run this in the Terminal:

sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 1000000000 4

(This is a good command to run if you delete a lot of files and you don't see your drive-capacity increase. It purges storage reserved for local snapshots left behind from Time Machine and OS updates.)






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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: btfc
Date: May 22, 2023 04:38PM
Safe boot and restart.

Clean out Downloads folder.
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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: ztirffritz
Date: May 22, 2023 04:39PM
Run DiskInventoryX to see what's hogging your drive. It will show a visual representation of the contents as blocks so that you can see which files or directories are guilty. I often find huge mistakenly saved files that way.

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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: sekker
Date: May 22, 2023 05:21PM
Recent versions of Carbon Copy Cloner can find mysteriously large files, too
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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: Acer
Date: May 22, 2023 05:36PM
I've used CCleaner (mac version here: [www.ccleaner.com]) to clear bloated caches and temp files easily. The caches regrow in the course of standard operation so it needs to be repeated every so often.



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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: JPK
Date: May 22, 2023 05:42PM
Thanks all! I have some homework to try tonight!

JPK
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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: May 22, 2023 05:46PM
....ozempic.....???


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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: anonymouse1
Date: May 22, 2023 07:31PM
IIRC, you have to double delete photos to actually get them to go away.
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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: gadje
Date: May 22, 2023 08:49PM
Too much pRON?

Sorry I couldn’t resist!
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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: jonny
Date: May 22, 2023 08:57PM
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ztirffritz
Run DiskInventoryX to see what's hogging your drive. It will show a visual representation of the contents as blocks so that you can see which files or directories are guilty. I often find huge mistakenly saved files that way.

[www.derlien.com]

This!
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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: JPK
Date: May 23, 2023 09:05AM
That got me about 30gb. I think I need to keep trying. Thanks.

JPK



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Tiangou
Make sure that your backups are up to date.

Then run this in the Terminal:

sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 1000000000 4

(This is a good command to run if you delete a lot of files and you don't see your drive-capacity increase. It purges storage reserved for local snapshots left behind from Time Machine and OS updates.)
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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: JPK
Date: May 23, 2023 09:15AM
Fyi, dabbling with DiskInventory x now.

Did a fresh full back up last night and the source disk that now shows Used: 860.2 Free: 134.5 and the back up shows Used: 550.1 Free: 449.9.

Thanks for the help. I am progressing!

JPK
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Re: Hard drive showing 90% Full - diet ideas?
Posted by: sekker
Date: May 23, 2023 11:49AM
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JPK
Fyi, dabbling with DiskInventory x now.

Did a fresh full back up last night and the source disk that now shows Used: 860.2 Free: 134.5 and the back up shows Used: 550.1 Free: 449.9.

Thanks for the help. I am progressing!

JPK

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