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    "Messages" attachments deleted from Finder but still appearing in Storage Settings Report

    Hi all, First off, apologies if this issue has already been discussed and solved. I did quite a few searches and didn't find anything related to this specific issue I've been having. I've been running into constant storage issues with my work computer (2020 M1 MBP, Ventura). I'm unfortunately...
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    Apple Photos Library File - Can I delete it from my Mac?

    Hi all! I've got about 30k photos stored in iCloud which I usually access from my phone or iCloud.com. I happened to open the Mac photos app a couple of weeks ago and have noticed that my disk is now using about 250gb. I don't use the Apple photos app on my Mac as I tend to download them from...
    • harry_aag
    • Thread
    • apple photos disk space
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: macOS
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    Disk space used on new Mac Studio?

    I’ll be buying a Studio Max and trying to determine how large a drive I should get. Especially important as internal SSD cannot be upgraded (as I understand it) and will have to last a number of years. The internal drive will have system and apps; data, Time Machine, videos etc will be on...
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    M1 Disk Space Problem?

    Hi Folks, it's been a long time since I've been here so apologies if this is the incorrect area of the forums ... I have a late-2020 Mac Mini (M1) that I got to be a general-purpose computer (email, web, documents, etc.) but have also used it for testing code that I then run on my larger...
  5. WacoOne

    Disk Space Question

    Hi, all. I have a 2014 Macbook Pro that I just purchased about a week ago. Bought it refurbished from Mac of All Trades and got it about a week ago. I'm not even sure it's ever been used; it was pristine. Anyway, it works great. The heavy stuff I use it for is Lightroom, Photoshop, and a...
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    Available disk space decreases in real time. kernel_task writing 122GB

    MacBook Pro running 10.14.5. My available storage space decreases in real time even when I am not downloading, modifying, updating anything. For example, if I have 8.05 GB available space, I can see it decrease in real time to 8.04, 8.03, 8.02. No, time machine is not enabled. Every time my...
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    help recovering disk space. system taking up 200GB

    past few days my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) running mojave 10.14.3 has been slow and overheating. i then realized a new os version came out and maybe i needed to update. i tried to update and my mac has run out of storage (4 GB free disk space remaining) and my system was taking...
    • shulzach
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    • backup delete disk space documentrevisions-v100 system storage time machine trash update
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS Mojave (10.14)
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    Disk space decreases to 0, but returns on restart

    When I restart my laptop, I have 30GB of hard disk space left. Over the course of several hours, the available space reported by Finder reduces to 0. When I restart, the free space returns. As an example: I saw my available hard disk space was at 21.1MB, so I restarted my computer. At 9:54am...
  9. newyorkguy

    MacOS High Sierra filling internal SSD

    Hi there, recently upgraded to High Sierra on a MBP mid 2015 and I have the problem the SSD ist filling up after some hours after startup. This means starting from 50GB free disk space going to under 1GB. There are no downloads running, Just browser, Mail and Evernote. Tried daisy disk to locate...
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    "Your disk is almost full" on a new mac

    Hi, I am having the following problem. I bought a mac about a month ago, 250 GB hard drive. I have not downloaded any significant amount of software or videos as far as I can think of. However, this morning it said it had 3 GB left. This was hard to believe - I assume if Macs typically...
  11. KisstheCreator

    "System" taking up 285 GB of space

    Hello! I am running High Sierra 10.13.4 Beta (17E150g). After updating I discovered i wasn't able to load a Photoshop update. I started trouble shooting Creative Cloud and long story short I removed all Adobe/Creative cloud App/folder and ran the Adobe Cleaner tool to start fresh. When I went...
  12. gaggle

    Photos.app how to remove downloads?

    Hi all! Been wondering about this for a while. Photos is supposed to shrink its library automatically when "Optimize Mac Storage" option is set. But I have two users on my machine and a large library on one user does not shrink when the other user runs low on space. So, is there a way to...
    • gaggle
    • Thread
    • disk space high sierra photos
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS
  13. Bethany03

    Issues with System Storage 200 GB of unidentified usage

    I am hoping someone can help me. I just upgraded to the 2017 imac from a time machine backup. Before doing so I had around 200 GB's of free space but now my new system is completely maxed @ 1 TB! The system storage shows 289 GB's being used and I do not know what for. I can identify all my other...
    • Bethany03
    • Thread
    • disk space hd issues help storage system storage time machine troubleshoot
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: macOS Sierra (10.12)
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    iCloud Drive using disk space while nothing is in iCloud Drive

    Hi, As seen in the title, iCloud drive is using 12,35GB on my Macbook, but when I go to iCloud Drive in Finder, nothing is in there. How can I fix this?
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