When I go to About This Mac > Storage, Documents is taking up nearly 40 gig of space. When I drill down for more information under Manage, there's nothing to report under any of the tabs. Large Files, Downloads, Unsupported Apps, Containers or File Browser. Any ideas as to what is consuming so much space? Apps like Clean My Mac do not report anything, either.
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
Any Third Party Applications that will interfere with the normal operation of the OS, alter, modify, remove or delete or attempt to do so is an invitation for disaster and comprising the Operating System
Any of the below should be removed as per Developers Instructions
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Never use such **** as cleanmymac... it's cancer.
If you want to have a better picture of what is using space on your drives, try Daisy Disk.
Never use any program that claims to "clean", "optimize" or "speed up" your mac. They're scams, and cleanmymac is one of the worst, known to delete stuff that is needed, and causing all sorts of trouble. Most macs tainted by it end up requiring a clean install.
Documents taking up a lot of space
