My free space is being eaten up by something...

[lukasarvidsson]

Hi!

I had a strange problem with my old Macbook Pro (2012 13") that my free space on my hard drive was getting gobbled up by something, if I checked all the folders (hidden and visible) and there was nothing that could explain that I suddenly had only a few GB left.

I have now a "new" computer (late 2013 15" retina) and now to my surprise I have the same problem!

Please see the attached screenshots for explanation. I am quite stunned by this. My thought is that it might be due to Dropbox och Creative cloud. I have also tried doing First aid in disk utility and no errors were found.

Ideas for how to troubleshoot this further would be much welcomed.

 

[page404]

Can you check you activity monitor and see if there is a process writing to disk? My guess it's some temporary data written bij an application gone rogue.

 

[lukasarvidsson]

Can you check you activity monitor and see if there is a process writing to disk? My guess it's some temporary data written bij an application gone rogue.

Thank you for your answer.

Here is how it looks in the activity monitor.

I tried using Daisydisk and here it how it looks there. ChunkStorage seems to be the problem.

 

[lukasarvidsson]

I have now found the error. It is the application Sketch by Bohemian coding that has a bug with document revisions. I just deleted 323GB of version history from my saved sketch files. Each time I save a new file is added to DocumentRevisions.

To clean my document revisions i used the following command with great success "sudo rm -rf /.DocumentRevisions-V100” and my total disk usage has gone from 496GB to 173GB.

 

[page404]

Cool! Good you found it