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TechAdjacent

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Feb 15, 2023
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Hi guys,

My storage keeps fluctuating on its own, sometimes I have 40gb free, next minute 5gb. My Mac says I have used over 300gb storage in Apps. Since I can't find out why this has happened I was hoping you could suggest what is going on.

When I look at the 'Manage' section in Storage it shows the biggest app is 2.92gb, I also went to Library but it populates as 21.5gb.

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Exploring further in this mystery I got to the 'Users' file and found it to be 621gb - my Mac has 500gb total storage. Not sure how this is happening to be honest - I am the only user on this computer.

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If anyone can suggest anything to help or knows what is going on I would greatly appreciate it :)

MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2019)
1.6GHz Gual-Core Intel Core i5
500 GB Storage
16GB Memory
 
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