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macOS Sierra system is using over 200 GB of storage space on my 250 GB hard drive. I've removed Time Machine backups to no avail. How do I free up space? My current usable space being less than 50 GB is getting quite problematic.

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The culprit has been found. Imagemagick is creating tons of temp files for some reason.

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  • Adding to the commotion; Space freed up by removing personal files quickly gets eaten up by system
    – matthiasdv
    Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 13:11
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    Please add what you found as an answer and then you can accept it. This will help others who have a similar problem with this software.
    – fsb
    Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 13:21

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The Solution

I used a storage scanning application to see where all the space was going. I used DaisyDisk, but Disk Inventory X is another option

Turns out ImageMagick image editing library was rampantly creating large files at /private/var/tmp

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