My system using too much space, 199 GB

[Owerko]

Hello,
can someone help me?? System using 199GB of space. I dont know how to solve this problem..
Tahnks

 

[casperes1996]

That's really quite interesting... In the "About This Mac" Storage pane, does it show as "Other" or Purgable?
Do you use Time Machine? TM keeps local backups as well, but it's supposed to automatically shrink when you need the storage for other things

You can try and wipe the local TM backups by writing this in Terminal

"sudo tmutil disablelocal"
This disables local backups and deletes the backups

"sudo tmutil enablelocal"
Re-enables local backups but fresh, so none of the old backups are stored locally anymore, and your pervious backups are only on your actual TM disk

 

[Owerko]

That's really quite interesting... In the "About This Mac" Storage pane, does it show as "Other" or Purgable?
Do you use Time Machine? TM keeps local backups as well, but it's supposed to automatically shrink when you need the storage for other things

You can try and wipe the local TM backups by writing this in Terminal

"sudo tmutil disablelocal"
This disables local backups and deletes the backups

"sudo tmutil enablelocal"
Re-enables local backups but fresh, so none of the old backups are stored locally anymore, and your pervious backups are only on your actual TM disk

Here is Screen of "About This Mac" . Now Im going write those commands in Terminal.

 

[casperes1996]

Here is Screen of "About This Mac" . Now Im going write those commands in Terminal.

Well, if all is working as it should with TM, it won't clear up much. Only the tiny bit to the far right, next to the "free section". The shaded area

 

[Owerko]

Well, if all is working as it should with TM, it won't clear up much. Only the tiny bit to the far right, next to the "free section". The shaded area

Well finaly its stop at 194Gb. 5Gb was maybe TM backups. But, I find another secret files in folder Macintosh HD, by use commands "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE" and "killall Finder".
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Well, if all is working as it should with TM, it won't clear up much. Only the tiny bit to the far right, next to the "free section". The shaded area

 

[casperes1996]

I see nothing unusual in the hidden files

 

[Owerko]

I see nothing unusual in the hidden files

Me too, i also try some software for clean, but i find just 40GB of folders, aplications... I dont know where are secret 194gb

 

[Fishrrman]

OP:

If you want to see what's using up your drive space, download the small, free app called DiskWave:
https://diskwave.barthe.ph

Then, just open it.
You'll see what to do next.

TIP:
Go to the preferences and set normally-invisible files to be VISIBLE