Q: Lost almost 35 GB, Grand Perspective shows that as "Misc Files"
So I woke up this morning and discovered my Mac had seemingly lost almost 35 GB overnight. Yesterday I was floating around 656GB and now I'm at 613. I couldn't fathom what had happened; I checked with Grand Perspective and everything appeared normal. Then I clicked "show entire volume" and it listed almost 35 GB (pretty much the exact size that seems to have gone missing) as "miscellaneous files".
How do I get this space back? I tried running "CleanMyMac" but that didn't help. I tried rebooting (which usually gets me back some arrant runaway space) but that didn't help. My Time Machine backup appears to be up to date so I don't think it's that either.
Any ideas?
OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 2.6 GHz Core i7, 16GB Ram, 1TB SSD
Posted on Sep 4, 2015 6:00 AM
