Timeline for 100GB+ of hidden space I can't delete or purge
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| Aug 13, 2020 at 13:51 | comment | added | benwiggy | I'd try booting to Safe Boot Mode, which deletes lots of caches as part of it's operation. | |
| Aug 13, 2020 at 8:39 | answer | added | Yannic | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 5:42 | answer | added | amdyes | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 1:05 | answer | added | TJ Luoma | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 1:00 | comment | added | bmike♦ | Hang in there and let the spotlight index catch up. Have you left the Mac running overnight one night without sleep? | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 23:24 | answer | added | Vladimir | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 22:31 | answer | added | Darrell Root | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:55 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I wonder whether that's the system drive… is that DaisyDisk 4.8, or an older version? Try daisydiskapp.com/manual/4/en/Topics/HiddenSpace.html | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:48 | comment | added | Tom | Edited with pic of Storage showing 166.81GB of Other. iCloud is fully setup and photos album only taking 800MB+ only that's full of video, photos from the past few years. | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:47 | history | edited | Tom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2019 at 18:10 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Do you use > About this Mac > Storage > Manage… Store in iCloud? If so, your purgeable data is not all Time Machine snapshots. Also check the free space in Storage against that in Disk Utility > Free vs. Available & see apple.stackexchange.com/a/370809/85275 which has an explanation of how the purgeable data structure works [but isn't an answer to your question] | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 18:05 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 23, 2019 at 18:04 | history | asked | Tom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |