![]() On my Mac with a 256 SSD - you can see at the bottom, 172 GB is free for new files since the purgeable don't need any action if I choose to add more files - they do important work speeding up network calls and also save the SSD wear cycles from erasing cached files that are likely to be used again. In the comments, I recommended you use Apple tools or something like DaisyDisk which does classify purgeable space and snapshots apart from the "user space" you want to focus on to free space. Firm links and sandboxes and sealed system volumes mean that even tools that try to "traverse" one home for user files won't catch application caches, settings, data as easily as before. In your case - 50 GB of apps, 5 GB of iCloud data and 4 GB of Documents maptģ. Increased usage of firmlinks and to a lesser extent hard links.Sparse files, purgeable files (cloud backed files that serve as "cache" can be freed on demand) also make it more complicated when "file size" is not necessarily the "space used on disk" and when two files use the same space - the tools don't know if the OS has commingled those identical bits or not.Snapshots and copy on write mean that files can share space on the disk.Three major changes have made older tools like Grand Perspective and Disk Inventory less useful. I don't believe you have any issues and everything looks quite normal. Im coming from windows and i dont know if this is normal.Īnd last but not least is this overly large block of data that i found using disk inventory x that cannot be found. There is a chance that it has something to do with all of this but i dont know how, or where i should start fixing the problem.įirst of all, is this volume "layout" normal? I must also mention that I had an issue with macos big sur which led to me reinstalling macos couple of months ago. I cannot imagine what the issue could be, thats why im going to tackle it down one by one. Register: Log in to check your private messages: Disk Inventory X Support Forum : Forum Index Bugs and Odd Behaviour: Crashed when run on Mac OS X 10. System information tells me that i have ~90gb free space on my mac while disk utility tells me that its ~70gb,onyx says its <60gb and storage management is more along the lines of ~85gb. It is not a local snapshot issue, i already got rid of every snapshot. The numbers that disk utility, system information, storage management and onyx were giving me were not the same. In the last couple of days I noticed that there was something off about my storage. The oldest directory within the ~/Library/Caches directory was modified Apr 4 2006.New mac user here running Monterey 12.1 (21C52) and I wanted to know if this Drive/ Volume layout is normal. If your Caches folder is out of control, then you should think about some sort of cleaning.įor comparison purposes, here are the current sizes for my (Mac OS X created) Caches folders: I'm simply stating that you can empty the directory and its not a big deal. I'm not advocating that you empty the directory and then lock the folder so that it can never be populated, nor am I advocating that you empty the directory at all. Recently I discovered a bug in an application (the producer of said application was "some kind of fruit company" who shall remain nameless), and the top level tech that I was working with confirmed that its no big deal to delete the contents of the ~/Library/Caches directory. Just for reference, I will reiterate what has already been said about the long-term importance (or lack there of) of files in the ~/Library/Caches directory. As for the QuickTime cache, you can set the maximum size, or turn of caching entirely, in the QuickTime preference pane on the Browser tab.] The Desktop cache contains Desktop pictures, and if you change often, may grow. I don't know why the SoftwareUpdate cache has so much in it I've never seen that. Register: Log in to check your private messages: Disk Inventory X Support Forum : Forum Index Bugs and Odd Behaviour: Crashed when run on Mac OS X 10. ![]() You may find folders for applications that you no longer user, or, as in this hint, folders that contain much data that you can delete. It's good, if you need to save space, or if you are planning a backup and want it to go faster, to check from time to time, sorting by size, to see which folders take up the most. [ kirkmc adds: This Caches folder holds lots of stuff that you really don't need. I did not encounter any problems, so I emptied the Trash and now my ~/Library/Caches folder is only 154.3 MB. Since they're caches, and they'll be rebuilt if needed, I dragged those three folders to the Trash and restarted. It turns out that my ~/Library/Caches folder is 1.55 GB. I'm starting to run out of disk space on my Mac, so I decided to poke around and see what's been taking up space. ![]()
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