Good morning :-)
Thanks yet again. I've spent some time reading up on CleanMyMac and now feel that I should give my keyboard a bath. OnyX sounds like it's not such a hideous little gremlin, but also not necessary.
re: This Mac just doesn't have enough storage...
I don't doubt it, but it's what I could pay for, and so it's what I have. That said, I lead a somewhat dull computing life. Word, Excel, and Quicken. Mac Mail, Thunderbird, Firefox, Safari. Messages. Every few months, I clear out email and delete browser caches. I don't often remove old messages, b/c I haven't found a straightforward way to easily clear out the detritus without also losing things I want to keep.
The Documents folder (that houses all those exciting spreadsheets and my Quicken files) is 6.8GB. Very little music (iTunes folder is 400 MB). No movies. Photos does take a large chunk, 23.5 GB. Still, it seems like I ought to be able to do more than that without constantly running out of space.
I would just like to understand why that pesky imagent folder is so large -- 21.5 GB -- and how files end up in it. I have determined that the files mostly, if not all, things that were attached in Messages. The dates have nothing at all to do with the actual Message date, and the filenames don't match the filename displayed in the Messages UI, but the preview in Get Info does show me the image.