Large home folder

[MacOSXuser]

It's showing me I used 66GB in my home folder, but the content inside it is only 40GB. So where is the rest of the space gone?

 

[GGJstudios]

If you're wondering what "Other" category in the storage tab is about, this may help explain:

What is this "Other" in the storage tab? What is eating my space​

For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:

• Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.
• For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion or later, space may being consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled by entering the following command in Terminal: sudo tmutil disablelocal.
  About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs​
• Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
• Search with Finder to see if the space is being consumed by a very large file or several large files. Adjust the 50GB in the illustration to whatever size you deem appropriate.
  
• Use OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report, Disk Inventory X, DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to see how space is being used on your drive. Some of these apps may show more detail than others, so try several.
• Check your drive with Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
• Try re-indexing your drive: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes

Here are a few resolutions found by others with the same question:

• Encrypted drive
• Time Machine backup files and needed disk repair
• App filling log file
• App or file was 89GB
• Drive needed to be re-indexed
• Time Machine backup file
• Large app cache file
• Garageband files and video podcasts
• Oversized email being duplicated
• Another email issue
• 18.45EB of movies shown

 

[maflynn]

It's showing me I used 66GB in my home folder, but the content inside it is only 40GB. So where is the rest of the space gone?

Download and run OmniDiskSweeper (its free) It will provide a sorted list of your files/folders and show you where all your space is going. It includes system and hidden folderes

This above all will detail where your space is going. You have to consider your ~/Library folder it may not be included in the Other calculation and that folder which is normally hidden can hold a fair amount of space.

 

[benwiggy]

It's showing me I used 66GB in my home folder, but the content inside it is only 40GB. So where is the rest of the space gone?

What is showing you this? If it's the Finder, it's possible that the difference is in the Library folder (normally hidden in the Finder). That stores a lot of stuff, like email downloads and iPhone backups.