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Hard drive filled up after High Sierra upgrade on MacPro
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That's expected, it's asking for you to enter your password, then press enter.
Nothing will show while you type your password, that's the way Apple designed it.
Nothing looks really off there, assuming 122GB for personal files in the /Users folder sounds right to you.
Sometimes what happens is the Spotlight index gets corrupted and it makes that storage readout section inaccurate. Try running this command to reindex Spotlight (give it an hour or so to complete) and see if that helps.
Sometimes what happens is the Spotlight index gets corrupted and it makes that storage readout section inaccurate. Try running this command to reindex Spotlight (give it an hour or so to complete) and see if that helps.
Code:
sudo mdutil -E /Okay thank you!
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Should I close down the existing command and reopen the terminal?
Nope... you can just go ahead and run this new command in the same Terminal window.
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I have done what you asked me to but nothing is coming up.
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It won't show anything in Terminal. It just starts the reindex in the background.
If you bringup Spotlight while it is in the process of reindexing you can see a blue progress bar. If that bar is gone, the reindex is complete.
If you bringup Spotlight while it is in the process of reindexing you can see a blue progress bar. If that bar is gone, the reindex is complete.
Idk what’s happening. My friend got a problem like this too when he (continuously like a baffoon) dual booted his MacBook Air with both Windows 10 & macOS 10.15 Catalina beta.
Once the reindex is done, take another look at that storage graphic to see what it says now.
Hmmm.... does that 122GB we came up with earlier for your users folder sound about right?
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I am not sure what exactly the 122GB user contains and why my MacBook system is eating up the whole 146.99GB for...
Okay... run this in Terminal to drill down a little in the users folders to se where the space is being used.
Code:
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g ~/
Yeah... something odd going on the the users Library folder with 97GB used. You also have 12GB on the Desktop.
Run this to drill down more in the Library folder.
Run this to drill down more in the Library folder.
Code:
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g ~/Library
Keep on going to see what it is in caches.
You can just delete the whole contents of that folder to fix this, but let's run the command to see if we can tell what app is causing the cache problem.
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sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g ~/Library/CachesYou can just delete the whole contents of that folder to fix this, but let's run the command to see if we can tell what app is causing the cache problem.
It looks like the problem folder is above where you took the screen shot. Can you scroll up or enlarge the window to show the whole thing?
SorryIt looks like the problem folder is above where you took the screen shot. C
an you scroll up or enlarge the window to show the whole thing?
Looks like the problem is in ~/Library/Caches/Adobe with 91GB. You can run just delete the contents of that folder to fix this, but it looks like you have a misbehaving Adobe app causing this.
What should I do?
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I'm a photographer and also into cinematography, I guess that explains the reason for the Adobe apps malfunctioning. How can I fix it?