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JippaLippa

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Jan 14, 2013
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Hello.

I have very minimal macOS installations, and I'm very careful with my files, only keeping what's strictly necessary.
This makes what happened to me, all the weirder...

Despite my best efforts, I have a mysterious 350GB of "System Data" files in my Hard Drive.
Being my HD 1TB and needing about 300GB for the After Effects cache, this is unacceptable.

I would have loved to know more about what files take up this space, but macOS gives me no option to see what these files are.
Any suggestions?
2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra 48-Core 128GB Ram, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1

Thanks.
 
After Effects has gotta be the most stupid software in existence...
It kept 300GB of cache from a previous version.

Now that I know, I will be extra careful in removing the cache before updating.
Now, this is surely a bug, as I updated the software countless time on macOS in the past, and I never encountered this issue.

Sorry for creating a new thread.
 
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