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Disk almost full mac5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() I know people have mentioned deleting local timemachine snapshots to free up a lot of space. ![]() Restarting the mac usually will reclaim a few GB, but that will be eaten after an hour or so, and it’ll go back to 5GB-3GB free range. I turned off timemachine (I’m assuming unchecking “Back up Automatically” is the same thing as “turning time machine off”) thinking that would delete the local snapshots, but didn’t notice any difference in free space. (13GB of Adobe After Effects caches, deleted x-code as I never use it, lot’s of podcasts, movie files, music files, etc) I ran a Time Machine backup, hoping that would do some housecleaning (the backup was around 50GB) but it really didn’t change anything. I proceeded to then delete even more files, and throughout the weekend I’ve probably deleted at least 20GB but probably more like 40-50GB or more. The update went without a hitch (thank god) but there really wasn’t much change to my drive space.Īfter the update I seemed to have regained a little more free space (around 8GB free or so) but that quickly went away after just using the computer throughout the day. Noticed my HD only had about 5GB free!ĭeleted a couple gigs worth of stuff (such as a backup MocOS Catalina install disk image) and also ran the latest security update for Catalina, figuring that update might be sitting on my drive taking up space. On Friday I was using photoshop when it suddenly complained the scratch disk was full. I’m using a 2013 MacBook Pro on MacOS Catalina (10.15.6) with a 512GB internal SSD.
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