System uses now 1.1 TB - it is not local snapshots

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System uses now 1.1 TB - it is not local snapshots

System uses now 1.1 TB, and it is not local snapshots, and apple does not help

anyone know a solution how to get rid of this?

Apple Care Team is useless.. °_°

iMac Pro, macOS 10.14

Posted on May 26, 2019 8:12 AM

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Answer 1

May 27, 2019 7:05 AM in response to Paz.americano

I would still suggest what machack stated is to run Etrecheck and post the

results here. There is something that is causing space to fill up and we

may sot in the report what is causing it.

Also, you never mentioned if you downloaded and ran OmniDiskSweeper?

What was it showing as the large disk usage items? If it is anything other

than the Users directory, don't delete anything but just report any one item

that may seem quite large.

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Answer 2

May 26, 2019 8:33 AM in response to Paz.americano

Try restarting in Safe Mode.

Also, run Etrecheck and post its full report here.

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Answer 3

macjack

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May 26, 2019 8:14 AM in response to Paz.americano

The Storage tab is known to report incorrectly. Also check by choosing your Mac HD and "Get Info" (command-i). It may be different. Try rebuilding Spotlight index.

How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

Download Omni DiskSweeper:

https://www.omnigroup.com/more

DiskSweeper can give you a more accurate read of disk space than Finder or Storage Tab of About this Mac. It can also show you the precise size and location of all your files. It will inventory your disk starting from the files that take up the most space. If you want you can even delete files from OmniDisk Sweeper. But be careful some of the items may be important to your system.

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Answer 4

May 26, 2019 8:26 AM in response to macjack

I come into this issue constantly... so today I was downloading files, and suddenly no space anymore. I moved away 800GB of files to continue download files. Since then system when from 950GB of usage to 1.1 TB of usage. If I give it more space, it starts taking more continuously.

Rebuild Spotlight Index, I done already a few times on apple care advise. They seem to have the same routine to troubleshoot that leads to no result. I can not call them anymore. I just get frustrated.

None of them ever listen or think. they just "have to" go through specific trouble-shoot procedures, that never do any solving.

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Answer 5

May 27, 2019 12:38 AM in response to macjack

I ran the app, and now magic... 1.1 TB additional space.

I seriously wonder what Apple Care is doing! I was on 4 cases here with them, and they never could solve it. I wasted some 50+ hours on this BS... and Apple unwilling or not able to help. I think it is a mix.

Thank you!!!

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Answer 6

May 27, 2019 5:42 AM in response to macjack

LOLZ! ^_^

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Answer 7

May 27, 2019 5:44 AM in response to Paz.americano

only that it starts again... was close to 40GB yesterday,.. now again almost 400GB

I just hate this, and I hate apple for being such a dick in this.

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Answer 8

macjack

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May 27, 2019 5:32 AM in response to Paz.americano

You're welcome. But I still couldn't tell you what happened. Etrecheck fixes nothing, it just runs a diagnostic check and reports. So something that must have "jiggled" something that released the space. How's that for a technical explanation? lol!

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Answer 9

May 27, 2019 8:11 PM in response to woodmeister50

EtreChcek

Here the Etrecheck report.

I do not know what was filling up the space.. I added some terminal commands and also ran OmniDiskSweeper (deleted the app after that though, and did not check what it did.. lol)

Commands I ran that I found on the internet:

tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates / |grep 20|while read f; do tmutil deletelocalsnapshots $f; done

sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates / |grep 20|while read f; do tmutil deletelocalsnapshots $f; done

sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2019-05-26-200316

I do not why it still creates local snapshots, with time machine auto backups turned off since three month. Also, sometimes I see "last Backup" and a date... but I never clicked to make a backup... =/

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System uses now 1.1 TB - it is not local snapshots

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