I know there is a software related feature under about this mac that lets you go through and delete different apps that might take up large amounts of space.
I didn’t know there was something built in that cleaned these things out by it’self Cheers for the heads up. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn Sent: Friday, 21 December 2018 3:59 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Mac harddisk odditie. Simon, I hate to dis-agree with your generally good advice, but there is an option that became available in High Sierra to clean the downloads and trash folders of older items. I expect it is essentially enabling a Lauchd daemon that runs a find command on $HOME/downloads and removes items modified > specified time period. Though I believe I enabled this on my system and yet older downloads still remain, so perhaps a tag is added to files when they are added to downloads that includes an expiration date. I would love to understand the systems used to support this. Jonathan On Dec 19, 2018, at 10:24 PM, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com<mailto:si...@blinky-net.com>> wrote: Get rid of any applications that you know you don’t need or use, as jonathan said, trash takes up space, iCloud also. Downloads folder doesn’t clean it’s self out. Other users that may have accounts on your machine that have large data sets From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2018 10:54 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Mac harddisk odditie. A couple of things to think about. 1. Has the trash been emptied. 2. Is iCloud using up a bit of that space? If iCloud sync process keeps files opened then even if they are deleted they will not free up disk space until all open file systems for the disk are closed. (perhaps reboot). 3. Did you properly modify things in the users panel to indicate that your home disk is on a separate partition? 4. You might consider Leaving the home directory where it is, and just move music / mail or other large file blocks to the external drive. Not sure if below is possible in MacOS. 5. If external disk is mounted as /Users and you have a /Users with content on it on the root disk partition, then none of the files in /Users on the root disk can be accessed. I say this might not be possible, because by default MacOS uses the auto mounter to mount USB external devices under the /Volumes directory. The UNIX mount command can replace any directory on the root partition with another partition .. mount /Users/jcohn/funk /dev/sd01a1 for example would do what you would expect. But then /jcohn/funk if it has files in it would not be visible. Maybe this helps?? Jonathan 18, at 1:58 PM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se<mailto:and...@pipkrokodil.se>> wrote: Hi! I moved my home folder to an external usb drive in order to free up some space on my main harddisk. THe main harddisk is the built-in 500GB drive on my Macbook air. But when i moved the home folder and removed it from the main harddisk i still have 400Gig of space busy. SO i don’t know what takes up so much space. I have tried to clean up space with both Onyx and clean my mac with no luck. Any ideas? Thanks. /A -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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