Data generating problem

[mikelamar]

Hi guys, suddenly yesterday I got a message that my SSD 250GB is full. The weired is that Im a designer and I only use this drive for Adobe programs and macOSX.
I searched and found some caches files from Adobe After Effects which I deleted them permanently. But now I got a new message that the disk is full again. So I bought Daisy disk to analyze my drive and showed me that there are 160GB of hidden data that I cannot find their location at the moment.
Does anyone have similar problem. I want to avoid formating my drive as you can understand.

 

[Fishrrman]

Do this, and you'll quickly find what's eating up that disk space.

1. Download "DiskWave" (it's small and free) from here:
https://diskwave.barthe.ph
2. Open DiskWave
3. Go to preferences and choose to make normally-inivisible files VISIBLE.
4. DiskWave will list files, from largest to smallest, in plain English.

What's taking up the space?

 

[mikelamar]

Do this, and you'll quickly find what's eating up that disk space.

1. Download "DiskWave" (it's small and free) from here:
https://diskwave.barthe.ph
2. Open DiskWave
3. Go to preferences and choose to make normally-inivisible files VISIBLE.
4. DiskWave will list files, from largest to smallest, in plain English.

What's taking up the space?

3rd step can be done by pressing shft+cmd+. but I dont know any other way

 

[Fishrrman]

"3rd step can be done by pressing shft+cmd+. but I dont know any other way"

Ummm....
Open DiskWave.
Go to preferences.
See the checkbox ... "Show Invisible Files" ????????

 

[mikelamar]

"3rd step can be done by pressing shft+cmd+. but I dont know any other way"

Ummm....
Open DiskWave.
Go to preferences.
See the checkbox ... "Show Invisible Files" ????????

My cloud was download files in my hard disk!!!

 

[madmin]

There's a terminal command that can help you:

/usr/bin/brctl evict ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/**/*/*

This will evict all iCloud Drive files from your local drive without removing them from iCloud drive. It keeps placeholder files that will re-download individual files from iCloud when clicked on. It's also possible to limit what's removed to particular files or folders by adjusting the /**/*/* section at the end of the command or by changing directory and running the command without the full path name that I've listed, e.g:

cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/nameOfFolderYouWantToRemove/
/usr/bin/brctl evict /**/*/*

See the man page for more details:

man brctl

 

[mikelamar]

The problem is that where hidden and spent several hours to understand what was happening.