macOS Big Sur - Hackdot

Re:macOS Big Sur by AngeloAnolin on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:05PM (#25073539)

I hope they provided with this update a way to examine the Others category that usually takes up so much space in our Mac devices. I've emptied my documents, removed as much possible clutter I can see and still, that Others space is taking 60% of my storage.

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Re:macOS Big Sur by sixstringtheory on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:15PM (#25073667)

I’m a longtime and happy user of DaisyDisk for investigating this kind of thing.

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Re:macOS Big Sur by acdha on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:56PM (#25074132)

If you want something friendlier than running du in Terminal, OmniDiskSweeper is free: https://www.omnigroup.com/more

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Re:macOS Big Sur by evolve2k on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:51PM (#25074824)

My go to disk space inspector has always been the free Grand Perspective, such a useful and clever way to show disk usage graphically.

You’ll be able to quickly see what folders are taking up space and more so easily see what folders and files in those folders are taking up the most space.

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

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Re:macOS Big Sur by marc11111 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:32PM (#25075367)

+1 for Grand Perspective, already helped me lots of times

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Re:macOS Big Sur by diebeforei485 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:35PM (#25077804)

This is the sort of app I hope we won't lose as part of the transition to Apple Silicon.

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Re:macOS Big Sur by pfortuny on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:17PM (#25074364)

._DS_Store folders take up a huge amount of space.

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