100 mysterious gigabytes on my mac

[asafyus1]

Hello,

My mac has a meaningful part of its hard drive full of gigs i can't find. I mean - i have no clue where are this files and how to make room on my HD which is continuously gets full and i don't know how.

My user folder contains 185 gigs on disk, but when I sum up the visible folders inside it - they are only 87 gigs together! so I can't understand whats going on.

Thanks for your help!

 

[CreeptoLoser]

Caches in system/library/caches, library/caches and User/library/caches

100 gigs is very high though. If you have apps that have their own content libraries then check there.

Some pirates also have cached content but I'm not accusing you.

 

[asafyus1]

Caches in system/library/caches, library/caches and User/library/caches

- Thank you, al ready erased 5 gigs of caches. Still the problem re, aims off course

 

[CreeptoLoser]

Do Get Info on all application folders in library and library/application support

 

[asafyus1]

Do Get Info on all application folders in library and library/application support

3 gigs in this folder

 

[mehdijobs]

Do Get Info on all application folders in library and library/application support

Got 47gb in Library folder, what should i do with it? the cache is only 2gb though..

 

[CreeptoLoser]

Got 47gb in Library folder, what should i do with it? the cache is only 2gb though..

Check the content of each sub folder to see what the data is and if you need it.

 

[Fishrrman]

OP:
Do you use time machine?
Could these be "local backups"?

If you want an easy way to see what's eating up the space, download "DiskWave":
https://diskwave.barthe.ph

It's free.
Then, open it.
Go to preferences and set it so that normally-invisible files will be shown, too.

Then... just look around.

 

[warp9]

OP:
Do you use time machine?
Could these be "local backups"?

Time Machine local snapshots are not included in drive space calculations.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204015

 

[asafyus1]

OP:
Do you use time machine?
Could these be "local backups"?

If you want an easy way to see what's eating up the space, download "DiskWave":
https://diskwave.barthe.ph

It's free.
Then, open it.
Go to preferences and set it so that normally-invisible files will be shown, too.

Then... just look around.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
That helped me find the hidden 100 gigs: adobe premieres cache files!

Thank

 

[Necross]

I had a similar issue with caches and scratch disks for adobe apps. I got myself a cheap external USB hard drive that I use just for those things now, and also my iTunes library, so now my main hard drive is just for the OS and apps and I can keep it nice and clean.