Mac storage full but it shouldn't be

Restart in Safe Mode, then restart normally.

Reset the Spotlight index.

saber162 wrote:

Hi

I have the following problem where my disk shows full and 244 GB for the applications, but actually my apps should barely take more than a few GBs. I'd appreciate any insights.

PS. I'm using mac mini & sonoma.

Thanks,

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/d1510304-24f1-4af3-ae08-ca81dc6d850a

That GUI is known to be radically incorrect.

For the big picture what do you see from the Get info (Command i) from your Macintosh HD