Maps on MacOS Ventura is huge - 39gb

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Maps on MacOS Ventura is huge - 39gb

Hi - I have a 2021 iMac with 256gb SD storage. It is full and when I look, using 'Clean my Mac' app, it is telling me that Maps is taking up 39gb of it! How can I reduce this?

iMac 24″, macOS 13.1

Posted on Feb 26, 2023 9:27 AM

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leroydouglas

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Feb 26, 2023 9:32 AM in response to DolphinDan1

DolphinDan1 wrote:

Hi - I have a 2021 iMac with 256gb SD storage. It is full and when I look, using 'Clean my Mac' app, it is telling me that Maps is taking up 39gb of it! How can I reduce this?

Quite the Maps app and relaunch it.

CleanMyMac is one of the worst offenders—known to cause issues on the macOS. Never recommended to use this app.

If your internal Storage is full, do some general house cleaning, All drives needed ~20% free sapace at all times to work efficiently

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Feb 26, 2023 9:39 AM in response to leroydouglas

Thanks for the quick response. I've done house-cleaning. It's hard to figure out where the space is taken up - Clean My Mac breaks it down in more detail than I can find otherwise - but I take your reservations on board. I don't have that much stuff. A lot of files have got a cloud icon next to them. Does that mean it's simultaneously on the SSD as well as in iCloud, or just the latter?

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Maps on MacOS Ventura is huge - 39gb

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