Massive system bloat(osx high sierra)

[rova]

You need to wait longer for it to finish. You will know it is done when a total shows at the bottom.

Okey Ill try that and see what I get
[doublepost=1550167442][/doublepost]I got this now:

 

[Weaselboy]

I don't see anything off these assuming about 89GB is personal user files is about right.

So the issue then is that storage graphic in About this Mac is way off. Let's try two things.

First, hold command-r (both keys) at boot up to get to recovery mode. Then start Disk Utility and run First Aid on the disk to see if that finds and repairs any disk errors.

Then reboot and run the Terminal command below to reindex Spotlight. Give it a half hour or so to complete. That storage graphic gets data from the Spotlight index, and if the index is corrupt is can be inaccurate.

sudo mdutil -E /

 

[rova]

I don't see anything off these assuming about 89GB is personal user files is about right.

So the issue then is that storage graphic in About this Mac is way off. Let's try two things.

First, hold command-r (both keys) at boot up to get to recovery mode. Then start Disk Utility and run First Aid on the disk to see if that finds and repairs any disk errors.

Then reboot and run the Terminal command below to reindex Spotlight. Give it a half hour or so to complete. That storage graphic gets data from the Spotlight index, and if the index is corrupt is can be inaccurate.

sudo mdutil -E /

Ill try that, the only thing I can think of is that there is a few mojave install files, I tried to install it some months ago but just recived errors

 

[rova]

Ill try that, the only thing I can think of is that there is a few mojave install files, I tried to install it some months ago but just recived errors

Trying to do it now, but after a couple seconds I got "too many warnings generated, suppressing subsequent ones" and the beachball has been spinning for the last 30 min

 

[Weaselboy]

Trying to do it now, but after a couple seconds I got "too many warnings generated, suppressing subsequent ones" and the beachball has been spinning for the last 30 min

This is during Disk First aid? Were you able to command-r boot to recovery?

 

[rova]

Yes, I booted with command + r, went in to the disk utility and started the first aid. 1 hour and still the same screen. Guess it stuck and wont repair.

 

[Weaselboy]

Yes, I booted with command + r, went in to the disk utility and started the first aid. 1 hour and still the same screen. Guess it stuck and wont repair.

That is worrysome... are you seeing any other signs of imminent drive failure? Things like apps taking a long time to launch and the spinning pinwheel a lot?

Try a command-option-r boot to Internet recovery and run first aid from there.

 

[rova]

That is worrysome... are you seeing any other signs of imminent drive failure? Things like apps taking a long time to launch and the spinning pinwheel a lot?

Try a command-option-r boot to Internet recovery and run first aid from there.

No it works perfect apart from system taking up to much space, the only other thing was that the cpu was running at 89-100c with the fans on full speed, tried to find a solution for the without finding anything. It was running like that for about two months, and since a couple of weeks its back to normal, 50-70c when i dont use anything taxing for the cpu.

 

[andyllewellyn]

No it works perfect apart from system taking up to much space, the only other thing was that the cpu was running at 89-100c with the fans on full speed, tried to find a solution for the without finding anything. It was running like that for about two months, and since a couple of weeks its back to normal, 50-70c when i dont use anything taxing for the cpu.

I used to have this problem with my MBP, turned out that the disk was always reindexing itself and would chew up resources and the fans would go nuts, it shows up as mdstores, or something md in the process window in the activity monitor, i used a terminal command to disable it and it was like running a new machine however i think this is also when my system storage started to get really out of hand!

 

[rova]

Now I have removed maybe 15-20 gb of old program, pictures etc, but i dont get any more space, but the system is increasing, up to 165 now

 

[andyllewellyn]

Now I have removed maybe 15-20 gb of old program, pictures etc, but i dont get any more space, but the system is increasing, up to 165 now

Mine did exactly this, but it went down after i found the files, also noticed your trash bin was quite full, need to empty that strait away just as a little house keeping. I would suggest you get a cheap external usb 3 drive, you can get them for peanuts, for keeping movies and bigger noncritical files!

 

[rova]

Not to be rude, but thats a quite stupid suggestion. The problem is that half of the drive has hidden files, or are corrupted. An external drive doesnt help me with the problem.

Is there a way I can see all files? Tried to give omni root access so it can scan the entire ssd but I just get the error message poster earlier.

Is the next step a fresh install or buy a new ssd?

 

[Weaselboy]

Tried to give omni root access so it can scan the entire ssd but I just get the error message poster earlier.

It looked like Omni was trying to update itself when you ran that command. Try starting Omni without sudo in the GUI and let it update, then try with sudo.

Did you try Internet recovery (command-option-r) like I suggested? It really does sound like you have a corrupted drive causing this.

 

[rova]

It looked like Omni was trying to update itself when you ran that command. Try starting Omni without sudo in the GUI and let it update, then try with sudo.

Did you try Internet recovery (command-option-r) like I suggested? It really does sound like you have a corrupted drive causing this.

No havent tried that yet, gonna try after work and see if it works.

 

[Weaselboy]

No havent tried that yet, gonna try after work and see if it works.

You may have better luck with Internet recovery since you are not booted to the disk and it allows Disk Utility better access for repairs. Internet recovery works by downloading the recovery utility into RAM and running it from there, freeing up the drive.

 

[rova]

"warning: Cross Check: Mismatch between extentref entry reference count (2) and calculated fsroot entry reference count (0) for extent (0x18088a7 + 1)" Got about 50 of those

Then I got a line "The volume /dev/rdisk2s1 appears to be OK"

Does it look fine?

 

[Weaselboy]

"warning: Cross Check: Mismatch between extentref entry reference count (2) and calculated fsroot entry reference count (0) for extent (0x18088a7 + 1)" Got about 50 of those

No... I don't like this message at all. I still think you have some sort of drive corruption issue going on here.

Can you backup to Time Machine then go back to Internet recovery and format the drive, then run first aid to make sure the errors are gone.... then restore from Time Machine.

 

[kdnerd]

can I please get help with this ....my system is almost full and I've tried the code above but I don't know what to do next

 

[kdnerd]

can I please get help, I've tried the command above but i

Run the command below in Terminal and give it a few minutes to complete, then tell us the output.

sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /

This will show the base folders space used in GB, including system and hidden files.

I've tried the code above and I don't know what to do next can you help??

 

[Weaselboy]

I've tried the code above and I don't know what to do next can you help??

That shows 55GB in your Users folder. Does that sound about right?

What does Disk Utility show for space used?