macbook air app is larger than size of ssd

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macbook air app is larger than size of ssd

Hi,

does anyone have experience and solutions to application storage is taking up more storage than the total size of ssd?

SSD size is 256GB but application size is 349GB.

MacBook Air

Posted on Feb 28, 2024 7:02 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 28, 2024 7:48 AM in response to cantusethatusername

This looks very wonky to me!

First thing I'd try is rebooting into Safe Mode, giving it at least 5-10 minutes, as this will clear several caches and do a lot of "behind the scenes" cleanups. Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

After this, do a normal reboot and check again.

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Answer 2

Owl-53

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Feb 28, 2024 7:47 AM in response to cantusethatusername

To get a more accurate view of the Drive and what is being used and / or free space on the drive

Use Disk Utilities >>> View all devices

Often times the Reported Space Used by Application can be attributed so some Third Party Disk Cleaner or Third Party Disk Optimizer Applications

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Answer 3

Feb 28, 2024 6:30 PM in response to MacMikeInOK

I tried this a couple of times. Gained 2GB but still getting nowhere to reducing the amount of storage app is taking. Did a manual calc and app folder size is no more than 26GB that now showing 340GB.

So restarting with safe mode I gained 2GB off total SSD, app folder sized down by abt 9GB. Leaves me with 30GB free. But something def wrong.

Am backing up everything now & will do a clean slate over the weekend.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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Answer 4

Feb 28, 2024 6:17 PM in response to Owl-53

Thanks for the suggestion. Did that but not really sure what I'm looking at. It's pretty much the same thing with storage in setting.

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macbook air app is larger than size of ssd

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