My Mac 2 memory storage just doubled!

Title pretty much says it all. It literally happened overnight. I'm not sure but it seemed to happen when I did latest upgrade to Ventura. Also, I would appreciate any help regarding getting rid of 200GB of unasked for memory. Also, patience, please. I am a techno-impaired senior.

MacBook Air, macOS 14.5

Posted on May 24, 2024 12:26 PM

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Posted on Jun 2, 2024 12:12 PM

I actually figured out what went wrong! My Mac "crashed" several months ago, in the process I also messed up my external hard drive. For fear of losing my previous memory I made a separate user to protect those files!! My Mac is up and running with ALL my files restored. I just realized what i did, deleted the user and away went 300 GB of duplicate files!

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Jun 2, 2024 12:12 PM in response to Tom Perkins1

I actually figured out what went wrong! My Mac "crashed" several months ago, in the process I also messed up my external hard drive. For fear of losing my previous memory I made a separate user to protect those files!! My Mac is up and running with ALL my files restored. I just realized what i did, deleted the user and away went 300 GB of duplicate files!

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