Application size in storage is inaccurate

[PittsDriver]

Good morning,

I have purchased an M2 Macbook Air to replace my M1. Migration went perfectly. Storage showed normal until this morning super randomly, I noticed that my disk was almost full. My old computer had around 550gbs used and this one is showing 850 used. Looking at storage, it seems that applications is reporting that it is 332gbs big instead of 33 gigs. I have tried indexing spotlight but maybe I didn't do it right. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Current M2 application size in storage:

Applications folder size on the M2:

Applications folder size as shown on my old M1:

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

There's more than one Applications folder, eg.
- /Applications
- /System/Applications
- ~/Applications

And applications in these may or may not show up in the Finder > Application "folder".

Also, apps can be placed elsewhere, too, and the system will count those when listing in Storage.

So, it's quite normal that Storage > Applications is not reporting same size as get info from Finder > Application.

 

[PittsDriver]

There's more than one Applications folder, eg.
- /Applications
- /System/Applications
- ~/Applications

And applications in these may or may not show up in the Finder > Application "folder".

Also, apps can be placed elsewhere, too, and the system will count those when listing in Storage.

So, it's quite normal that Storage > Applications is not reporting same size as get info from Finder > Application.

The same exact apps on my M1 computer, are showing 10 times the size on my M2. 30ish gigs versus 300+ gigs. That is not a little variance. Something is wrong here...

 

[Slartibart]

What version of macOS on the M1 and on the M2? You used Apple’s migration assistant? you restarted? Try a “clean up”-run of Onyx and additionally getting some more insight what is occupying the SSD using e.g. Grand Perspective.