com.apple.mediaanalysisd files filling drive in macOS 15.1

I thought I'd replied to this... seems not...

Photos: 35432 items

Incl.

Videos: 2324

Selfies: 220 (Not necessarily of me!)

Live: 93

Panos: 207

Total: ~168G

Not a great number by the standards of others I know.

Also in iCloud...

iCloud drive: ~110G

Backups: 17G

+ various app storage.

Again, not high by some standards.

(& nowhere near as much as I have on linux machines)

That "apple" should run mediaanalysisd on a machine & fill it up causing me to lose data

is unforgivable, to continually tell people to reduce usage when the actual problem is "apple"

in unconscionable.

The same applies to iphones, ipads etc. (the system software for which is now "bloated" in the

style of MicroSloth Windoze) when an update is required & the device can only unload or remove

insignificant apps when "Photos" could be offloaded (as long as there is sufficient iCloud space).

I get that this is a problem for a 256G/512G iphone with 5G of iCloud, but the entire ecosystem is

seemingly geared to selling more iCloud space &/or bigger memory devices.

It is really a programming problem & an honesty issue that need to be resolved & tell the user the truth!

So let's encourage Apple to start being truthful about storage space, on machines, iphone/pad & iCloud.

Please Apple do not try to hide the bleeding obvious!

As I assume by your comment "BTW, Apple issued isn’t here" you mean that no one from Apple reads

these pages, I find that disappointing & feel that they should, they might learn something about their

products!

In any case that does indicate that we need a button that says "report this as a bug" that points people

in the right direction.

But then my experience at trying to report a bug to apple has been that it is generally ignored.

Same here. Mine's at 47GB today. It was 45GB yesterday.

If this continues, the Mac SSD will run out of space very soon. Need a solution for this ASAP.

Hopefully that will happen. I noticed today I have only 88 MB of free space on my M1 MacMini. It turned out com.apple.mediaanalysisd is about 23 GB as of now.

I have exactly the same problem. Everytime I start to use my macbook, I feel it is warm because of the CPU cost of mediaanalysisd.

OK.:)

These are not solutions to BAD programming by apple!

Apple please get off your rear end & fix this stuff!

Note that this now applies to 15.3 it still has broken com.apple.mediaanalysisd

Just wondering how many pics & videos you have?

BTW, Apple issued isn’t here.

Sounds like you may very well be onto something! 👍

Did you have any negative side effects?

Thanks for the report! 👍

Thanks! :)

I just discovered over 240GB of this...

18 feb...

70G /Volumes/MyHomesVol/MyHome/Library/Containers/com.apple.mediaanalysisd

So it is still rising, but not as out of control as it once was.

Mine had gone al the way up to 69GB when it filled my hard drive!