Suddenly My Apps are using 1.81 TB of my 2TB drive

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Suddenly My Apps are using 1.81 TB of my 2TB drive

All my applications were taking up little room on my hard drive, but suddenly it shot up. I noticed and have been watching as this is a newer MacBook Pro. My old one was much smaller and yet I had the same necessary apps. I do have Adobe cloud Lightroom and Photoshop Cloud. All photos are on external drives. I recently created a video on Final Cut Pro. I spent the day cleaning off documents and moving the FCP library to an external drive as I suspected FCP cache was full. So I cleaned that up and it didn't change much at all. I'm at lost at what to do next.

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.4

Posted on Apr 24, 2024 10:23 PM

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patdpoo Author

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Apr 25, 2024 2:35 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

I just got Daisy Disk and drilled it down to iCloud! I went through it yesterday and there is practically nothing on there. Just contacts, don't store photos on there, some docs. I think I do pay for 2TB of space there but not what to do about this.

Here's a screen shot of my cloud storage

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Answer 2

Apr 25, 2024 2:07 AM in response to patdpoo

Are you sure you deleted that library after copying it to the external?

Select the system drive in Finder and press Command-I. In the Info window, how much space is available, and how much is “purgeable”?

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patdpoo Author

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Apr 25, 2024 12:52 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

9.5 mb on the external drive. I deleted all my past videos and cleaned up the rendered files. On my Mac hard drive there is no longer anything as deleted it all except for FCP install. I set it to reference the external drive. Applications take up 1.71 TB (w/ everything else 1.81 TB) of the 2 TB drive. FCP is 5.14 GB. I've been deleting some of my other software and reinstalling. One wasn't apple related but it changed from 7GB to 2GB after. The only other software that is big is Adobe Lightroom Classic (4.51GB) and Photoshop (5.14GB).

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 25, 2024 1:45 PM in response to patdpoo

27GB is more reasonable for your application space, especially for the large ones you have like FCP.

Could you post a screenshot of the Storage use from About This Mac, just to see where the content actually is. You don’t happen to have Daisy Disk or a similar application. Very useful utility to see where exactly your space is going.

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patdpoo Author

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Apr 25, 2024 1:35 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Okay thanks.

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patdpoo Author

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Apr 25, 2024 1:54 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

No I don't have Daisy Disk or other to tell me that info.

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Apr 25, 2024 2:02 PM in response to patdpoo

Click the circled i next to Applications and see what it tells you. You can sort by size to see if there is anything unusually large. It will look similar to this: