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I got a MacBook Air 2020 with 128GB storage to use mostly for browsing and light dev and that quickly filled up. It's like the OS tries to obsolete the machine
by dimitar 4y ago
I got a MacBook Air 2020 with 128GB storage to use mostly for browsing and light dev and that quickly filled up. It's like the OS tries to obsolete the machine as quickly as possible. The biggest annoyance is Finder telling me most of the storage is used by "Other".
- keyle 4y agoTry something like disk inventory X. It's a life saver.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoMy longstanding favorite for this has been OmniDiskSweeper[0]. It's dead simple and I've been using it for just about the entirety of OS X's existence. [0]: https://www.omnigroup.com/more/ https://www.omnigroup.com/more/
- gtm1260 4y agoGotta put a word in for daisy disk! Maybe you're paying for some fancy animations, but by golly are they nice LOL.
- boopmaster 4y agoI second Daisy Disk. When I made the leap from Windows to mac in the early 00s I wanted something to replace the freeware “scanner” I had found so entirely useful. http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
- arthurcolle 4y agoDaisyDisk is great. Best $10 on an app I've ever spent (circa 2015)
- erwinh 4y agoSome of the best functional data vis out there. For those wondering the chart type used by daisy disk is called a zoomable sunburst.
- darkteflon 4y agoWhat’s the advantage of Daisy Disk over the built-in “About this Mac -> Storage -> Manage”? Always interested in lovely boutique MacOS software, but in this case the website doesn’t sell it well as an alternative to what’s already available.
- tehwebguy 4y agoPut my vote in for `ncdu` (just skip your iCloud folders)
- thuttinger 4y agoI agree, ncdu is a great and easy to use command line tool. On Mac OS, run for example: ncdu -x --exclude /Volumes --exclude /System/Volumes / This scans the root filesystem but excludes the Volume mounts specifically (the -x option to limit the scan to the current filesystem doesn't work properly on mac os). Navigate through the folders, sorted by size, from there. Press d to delete a folder.
- tehwebguy 4y agoOh wow thank you
- moralestapia 4y agoDisk Inventory X is great and that's how I found out the speech folder on my OS X was taking like 12GB.
- odysseus 4y agoThere's a useful Apple-created tool built right into the OS: 1. Cmd-space for Spotlight 2. Type Storage Management 3. Hit Review Files Now you can sort by largest files and quickly make an impact on space used. The only problem I had with Apple's storage management utility is that it kept reporting a Steam game using 27G when that game was long deleted (and Steam itself was deleted). To resolve this, I had to go to the ~/Library/Application Support directory and completely remove the Steam folder (which didn't actually have that 27G game anywhere in it.)
- wzyoi 4y agoThe iPhone is doing the same. The unremovable caches will kill your space with time. I remember the Apple Music app caching and never removing any songs you’ve listened to and not showing any space it uses in settings. But this behavior is not specific to the Apple Music app - any other can do it too. Any caches from social apps you use have a high chance of being untraceable - it all goes into "Other". Why? Try buying a model with a higher capacity to get an answer. I also saw this behavior with an Android device - where removing a messenger on my grandfather’s phone freed up 20+ GB of space.
- jimvdv 4y agoI once found 15gb+ of Spotify cache from my 256gb MacBook. Deleted the app and use the web player now.
- ReactiveJelly 4y agoPeople ask why everything is web apps and there's the answer - It's a layer of sandboxing that users have _at least some_ control over.
- jbverschoor 4y agoTeams web version has local storage of 2gb. The problem is developers don’t know what the hell they’re doing
- Spooky23 4y agoThe problem is devs have beefy computers with 2TB SSDs.
- jbverschoor 4y agoIn music, producers would listen to their mix on different audio systems, including crappy radios.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoNone of the 128GB range were viable in the slightest. They were all a borderline scam and even after deleting GarageBand etc the usable space was close to broken. Sorry but this line only existed to force people who know it’s a scam to pay $100 more Same deal with the 16gb iPhone lines.
- colejohnson66 4y agoAs someone with a 128 GB model, I manage just fine. This is not the same as selling 16 GB models 3 or so years ago (that was ridiculous). It’s only a “scam” if you’re someone that needs more space and thinks having a “just fine” lower tier is a scam.
- ecedeno 4y agoThey were, and still are viable devices to some people. I only upgraded from a 128gb mbp and a 16gb iphone this year, after using them for 7 and 6 years respectively. Storage was never an issue with the laptop, and only became a problem with the iphone in the last couple of years.
- crazygringo 4y agoNot for most. I used a 16 GB iPhone SE with only a handful of apps for a while, but the biggest problem was the NY Times app where I get my news. Its cache will grow without bound, and once it would get to ~2 GB every few weeks I'd have to uninstall and reinstall the app to delete the cache. (Later on they created an option in settings to delete the cache.) I thought the 16 GB phone would work for me since I keep everything in the cloud -- no downloaded photos/music/nothing. Nope, and it was all because of app caches. I got so sick of having to uninstall and reinstall some app literally every week to clear its cache.
- jmull 4y agoThere are two kinds of people who don't need a lot of disk space on their laptop: 1. Those with few big things - these people just don't need a lot of disk space 2. Those with lots of big things - no matter what you do your laptop can't hold everything, so you have a different place for the overflow anyway. Personally, I think 128GB is crazy small, but it's been working fine for my wife for years, so what do I know?
- lostgame 4y agoIt’s borderline criminal that these were sold with soldered-on SSD’s that can never be upgraded. It makes piles of otherwise completely useful laptops unusable pieces of shit. Same with the RAM. The environmental damage alone that comes from this practice is heart wrenching. No possible performance benefits can be worth the damage it does.
- derefr 4y ago“Other” is probably 90% from ~/Library/Application Support/. Because apps like Chrome are too lazy to split things out of there to make them legible to the OS — e.g. putting their cache dirs under ~/Library/Caches/, etc.
- asddubs 4y agoi'm amazed that they still sell/sold 128gb versions that late. I remember deciding never to get a computer with that small a hard drive again a bit less than 10 years ago. it clutters up so fast.
- tomcam 4y agoI’m old enough to remember when 128GB meant something