Over 130 Gb in the Other category of storage! on my 250 Gb hard drive???

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Over 130 Gb in the Other category of storage! on my 250 Gb hard drive???

I have over 130 Gb in the Other category of storage! I just updated to Big Sur 11.6, and have only 14 Gb left on my 250 Gb hard drive, MacBook Pro 2016. I live in a rural area, where internet is 4 mb dnload & 0.4 upload. I have deleted caches, downloads, history files, moved photos and music and backups to external drives, and I can't really use iCloud with my slow internet speeds. If I back up, do the wipe it clean as for sale, and start from backup, will I still get all the junk in Other again????

Posted on Sep 16, 2021 11:44 AM

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Sep 16, 2021 3:18 PM in response to KyleK9

I googled the file name map.gmail.com and found this- from 2018 thread on this forum!

You would be safe to delete all those logs.

Disable log connection activity

macos - Huge Apple Mail Logs (Connection Logging Enabled) - Ask Different

I just deleted the logs and now have 110 GB freed up!

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Sep 16, 2021 12:14 PM in response to KyleK9

Find the biggest boat-anchors with one of the Utilities mentioned in this article:

What is “Other” storage on a Mac, and how… - Apple Community

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KyleK9 Author

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Sep 16, 2021 2:03 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Thanks for the references, Grant. I dug deeper and found the biggest file is buried deep- the path is Mail.app/Library/containers/Mail/data/library/logs/mail/imap.gmail.com-1B222053-F4AE-4056-81A5-08931116A97B.txt

the text file is 92 GB!!!

Would the world crash if I just deleted the file? Would Google still download my email again? Any ideas??? I am bad at deleting old emails, but this txt file seems ridiculous when I can still get gmail from google, right???

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Over 130 Gb in the Other category of storage! on my 250 Gb hard drive???

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