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Added clarity to point 3 to emphasize that the files were deleted through the Steam app instead of directly through the CLI.
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I had a huge (300gb+) ~Library. The culprit was Steam games that were living in /Users/_myusername_/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common.

To figure out what games were taking up the most space and remove them:

  1. I jumped into my library: cd ~/Library/"Application Support"/Steam/steamapps/common
  2. Figured out the biggest files: du -sm * | sort -rn | head -16
  3. Opened the Steam appapplication and deleted those games which then removed the files.

What a pain.

I had a huge (300gb+) ~Library. The culprit was Steam games that were living in /Users/_myusername_/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common.

To figure out what games were taking up the most space:

  1. I jumped into my library: cd ~/Library/"Application Support"/Steam/steamapps/common
  2. Figured out the biggest files: du -sm * | sort -rn | head -16
  3. Opened the Steam app and deleted those games.

What a pain.

I had a huge (300gb+) ~Library. The culprit was Steam games that were living in /Users/_myusername_/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common.

To figure out what games were taking up the most space and remove them:

  1. I jumped into my library: cd ~/Library/"Application Support"/Steam/steamapps/common
  2. Figured out the biggest files: du -sm * | sort -rn | head -16
  3. Opened the Steam application and deleted those games which then removed the files.

What a pain.

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Matt
  • 141
  • 4

I had a huge (300gb+) ~Library. The culprit was Steam games that were living in /Users/_myusername_/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common.

To figure out what games were taking up the most space:

  1. I jumped into my library: cd ~/Library/"Application Support"/Steam/steamapps/common
  2. Figured out the biggest files: du -sm * | sort -rn | head -16
  3. Opened the Steam app and deleted those games.

What a pain.