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I have a general understanding of APFS but that's it. Apple hasn't provided a great deal of documentation for those of us who are not programmers. Were there already files on the SSD before the conversion? I don't know a great deal about APFS and HFS+ conversion.
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When you went through the macOS upgrade to Mojave or Catalina your SSD was converted from HFS+. I am gnawing on the possibility that space is somehow associated with the conversion from HFS+ to APFS. I don't think the APFS snapshots would consume that much space but no way to tell with Disk Utility.
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I can only account for about 32GBs partitioned for Windows and another 12GBs used by the other four partitions used by APFS.
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This will provide a full view of how the disk is configured. On the top left is a small dropdown menu labeled View. You can also get a different picture by opening Disk Utility in the Applications folder. If you have an APFS formatted disk, then this will show information on the invisible partitions it creates. While you have Terminal active you might see what is displayed by entering: diskutil list. To turn off the display of invisible files and folders enter or paste the following command line and press RETURN.ĭefaults write AppleShowAllFiles FALSEĪlternatively, you can use one of the numerous third-party utilities such as InVisible or ShowHideInvisibleFiles - MacUpdate. At the prompt enter or paste the following command line then press RETURN.ĭefaults write AppleShowAllFiles TRUE Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. You need to make hidden files visible in order to see them:Įnable Finder to Show Invisible Files and Folders Possibilities include Time Machine local snapshots and APFS snapshots, application data, etc. There is no way we can tell you what hidden files are on your computer. There are no such categories actually on the drive.
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The categories found in the Storage section of About This Mac is simply an arbitrary way of displaying files on your drive. If you have more than one disk/partition then repeat for each one on your Desktop. You will find the disk information displayed for Capacity, Available, and Used. Press Command-I to open the Get Info window and look at the topmost panel displayed.
To find out the correct information for any disk: Select a Desktop disk icon. Ignore the Storage information as it is typically wrong.
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The oldest directory within the ~/Library/Caches directory was modified Apr 4 2006.What is 'Other' and 'Purgeable' in About This Mac?įiles That Make Up the 'Other' Storage Category, and How to Remove Themĭo not use the information from the Storage section of the About This Mac dialog. If your Caches folder is out of control, then you should think about some sort of cleaning.įor comparison purposes, here are the current sizes for my (Mac OS X created) Caches folders: I'm simply stating that you can empty the directory and its not a big deal. I'm not advocating that you empty the directory and then lock the folder so that it can never be populated, nor am I advocating that you empty the directory at all. Recently I discovered a bug in an application (the producer of said application was "some kind of fruit company" who shall remain nameless), and the top level tech that I was working with confirmed that its no big deal to delete the contents of the ~/Library/Caches directory. Just for reference, I will reiterate what has already been said about the long-term importance (or lack there of) of files in the ~/Library/Caches directory. As for the QuickTime cache, you can set the maximum size, or turn of caching entirely, in the QuickTime preference pane on the Browser tab.] The Desktop cache contains Desktop pictures, and if you change often, may grow. I don't know why the SoftwareUpdate cache has so much in it I've never seen that.
You may find folders for applications that you no longer user, or, as in this hint, folders that contain much data that you can delete. It's good, if you need to save space, or if you are planning a backup and want it to go faster, to check from time to time, sorting by size, to see which folders take up the most. [ kirkmc adds: This Caches folder holds lots of stuff that you really don't need. I did not encounter any problems, so I emptied the Trash and now my ~/Library/Caches folder is only 154.3 MB. Since they're caches, and they'll be rebuilt if needed, I dragged those three folders to the Trash and restarted. It turns out that my ~/Library/Caches folder is 1.55 GB. I'm starting to run out of disk space on my Mac, so I decided to poke around and see what's been taking up space.
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