Late 2013 rMBP "15 using over 200GB of storage for Apps?

[PTiMi201]

I have an rMBP 15" late 2013 with the 512GB PCIe-based flash storage drive, and the reported amount of used drive space does not make sense. A screenshot is below.

The storage summary states 414.81GB free of 499.05GB, so that calculates to 84.24GB used.

Below that, it reports Apps are using 231.48GB (this is much more than 84.24GB). I have OS X Yosemite installed with only a few additional apps (Xcode, iLife, Firefox, and Google Chrome). How can apps be using over 200GB?

 

[Samuelsan2001]

Restart it.

I have an rMBP 15" late 2013 with the 512GB PCIe-based flash storage drive, and the reported amount of used drive space does not make sense. A screenshot is below.

The storage summary states 414.81GB free of 499.05GB, so that calculates to 84.24GB used.

Below that, it reports Apps are using 231.48GB (this is much more than 84.24GB). I have OS X Yosemite installed with only a few additional apps (Xcode, iLife, Firefox, and Google Chrome). How can apps be using over 200GB?


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Do a restart and see what it says then....

 

[maflynn]

Download and use OmniDiskSweeper. It will provide a sorted list of what's consuming your space.

Another option which is more comprehensive is to use this terminal command
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /

I prefer to redirect it to a text file (this puts it in your Documents folder
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g / > ~/Documents/du.txt

 

[Harry Muff]

Download and use OmniDiskSweeper. It will provide a sorted list of what's consuming your space.

Thanks for that, useful little app it is.

 

[CausticPuppy]

I use Grand Perspective which gives you a nice visual representation of your HD space.

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net

 

[PTiMi201]

Do a restart and see what it says then....

Rebooting did not result in any big changes. It now reports 416.43GB free of 499.05GB, with 245.39GB used by Apps.

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Download and use OmniDiskSweeper. It will provide a sorted list of what's consuming your space.

Another option which is more comprehensive is to use this terminal command
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /

I prefer to redirect it to a text file (this puts it in your Documents folder
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g / > ~/Documents/du.txt

Thanks for the du command. I used the following terminal command and pasted the output below. Does this make any sense?

sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g -h / > ~/Documents/du.txt

51M /.DocumentRevisions-V100
18M /.fseventsd
0B /.PKInstallSandboxManager
127M /.Spotlight-V100
0B /.Trashes
0B /.vol
9.1G /Applications
2.3M /bin
0B /cores
4.5K /dev
1.0K /home
3.9G /Library
1.0K /net
0B /Network
4.4G /private
1004K /sbin
4.1G /System
53G /Users
498M /usr
4.0K /Volumes
75G /
75G total

 

[PTiMi201]

Problem solved! After following a suggestion in the Apple Support Communities to rebuild the Spotlight index, it now reports only 16.45GB used for Apps.

Rebuild the Spotlight index

 

[Traverse]

Another option which is more comprehensive is to use this terminal command
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /

I prefer to redirect it to a text file (this puts it in your Documents folder
sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g / > ~/Documents/du.txt

Thank you, I never knew of this terminal command. This will be quite useful.

There is also Daisy Disk in the App Store.