Timeline for Diagnosing runaway system storage when OmniDiskSweeper fails
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| Jul 27, 2022 at 22:00 | comment | added | emonigma |
@mpp I usually drag them to the trash or run rm -rf /path/to/application. Short of installing a third-party app, what directories should one delete to remove the files from installed applications?
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| Jul 27, 2022 at 21:20 | comment | added | mpp | @miguelmorin what are you specifically deleting to clear up storage? If you are deleting applications installed on your Mac, I recommend using AppCleaner to fully delete all files that are associated with the application. I had a similar issue to you and found that files that are associated with my applications are not automatically deleted after I delete the application. This means I had very large amounts of storage taken up by files that had zero purpose. AppCleaner is able to find the associated files and allows you to delete them to free more space. | |
| Jul 27, 2022 at 19:27 | vote | accept | emonigma | ||
| Jul 27, 2022 at 11:42 | answer | added | slartibartfast | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 26, 2022 at 16:57 | comment | added | emonigma |
@slartibartfast That's another 9.1 GB saved thanks to resetting Spotlight. Can you write an answer and include brew leaves and brew remove <package-name>?
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| Jul 26, 2022 at 15:48 | comment | added | slartibartfast | or via terminal - type and run the command: sudo -i Enter your administrator password and press Enter. Your Terminal changes to root. Run the commands: mdutil -Ea and mdutil -ai off Enter the command mdutil -ai on and press the Return. You will see a message saying that indexing is enabled. | |
| Jul 26, 2022 at 15:41 | comment | added | slartibartfast | here is a short primer on how to uninstall/remove packages via homebrew. And yes, the Spotlight index seems to occupy to much space. Open > System Preferences, then click Spotlight, then the Privacy tab. Drag your internal disk to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Wait a bit. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list and start the reindexing. | |
| Jul 26, 2022 at 9:41 | comment | added | emonigma |
@slartibartfast I removed MacTeX and will install BasicTeX when I need it. This move may buy me a few days or weeks until the runaway storage issues eats that free space again. /usr/local/Cellar is where Homebrew installs packages, such as Python3 and Emacs. Is the spotlight index supposed to take 9 GB?
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| Jul 25, 2022 at 15:07 | comment | added | slartibartfast | first stop would be to remove deleted mails and attachments permanently. Maybe its worth considering to change to the BasicTeX-Installation of MacTeX/LiveTeX? What is /usr/local/Cellar? | |
| Jul 24, 2022 at 8:56 | history | edited | emonigma | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added disk utility preview
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| Jul 23, 2022 at 21:51 | comment | added | Gordon Davisson | What is the "Colossus" volume? Also, in Disk Utility, if you choose View menu > Show All Devices, and select the "Container disk<something>" in the sidebar, what does it show about the volumes in the container? | |
| Jul 23, 2022 at 20:35 | history | edited | emonigma | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added `sudo du`
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| Jul 23, 2022 at 16:40 | answer | added | Tetsujin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 23, 2022 at 16:04 | history | asked | emonigma | CC BY-SA 4.0 |