Hard drive unexplained overload

[davemacpro]

Hi, great forum!
Hope somebody can help me as my usually bulletproof MacBook pro(early 2015) has started misbehaving.

I constantly get the message "your disk is almost full"

I've repeatedly deleted different things from the drive to free up space but there must be something going on behind the scenes. I deleted over 20Gb of images a few days ago, already the warning message is showing up. I've only browsed the web looking for solutions since!

I've once done a Time Machine backup but not for a few months.

Can anyone advise please? Thanks
Dave

 

[dcmaccam]

First have you emptied the Trash? Second do another backup as the operating system may have been doing local backups while it is waiting for you tho do the next backup.

You can check for local backups checkout this link:=

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