Applications shown much larger than space on disk

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Applications shown much larger than space on disk

Hello,

I am running into space issues on my mac and I took a look at storage management. It says that I am using 91 GB of space for applications. However, when I actually look in the applications folder and compute disk usage it shows only 18GB. Also the individual line item space numbers don't add up to the total.

I have no idea what is going on? Any suggestions?

The result of running du -s . on the /Applications folder was 18G. Not sure how to account for the other 70 G of space.

Any help much appreciated.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.12

Posted on Jun 27, 2020 10:22 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 27, 2020 10:55 AM in response to brakenal

See used and available storage space on your Mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/system-information/see-available-storage-space-syspf9b375b9/10.14/mac/10.15

How to free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206996

User tip: "Other and What Can I Do About It ?"

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5142

ref: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/04/09/where-did-all-that-free-space-go-on-my-apfs-disk/

Try something like OmniDiskSweeper for a GUI to get a good look at itemized file size and location:

OmniDiskSweeper http://www.omnigroup.com/more

Or alternatively from the Terminal.app, more detail copy and paste the command line:

File size, and finding missing GB— list the items in the home folder with the sizes, including invisible items.

sudo du -h -d 1 ~/

File size, and finding missing GB —will list the items in root with the sizes, including invisible items.

sudo du -h -d 1 /

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Answer 2

Jun 27, 2020 11:03 AM in response to brakenal

You have a Catalonia Installer image showing, taking up 8.24GB space. That can be used to create a bootable USB-stcik Installer on a 16GB or larger USB stick, and the disk-based Installer could then be removed.

How to create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support

(if you erase the new USB stick and name it exactly MyVolume, you can copy and paste from the article directly to the Terminal command-line, with making any error-prone changes)

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