Hello,
My macbook air is full and freezing sometimes and I wonder why it's full. Because when I let my macbook calculate the storage again, it calculates wrong. My user section has almost 400gb but when I drop down it clearly looks like there is nothong use 400gb storage. What should I do?
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MacBook Air 15″, macOS 15.1
Your user/home folder doesn't normally show the ~/Library folder in the list, but it is included in the calculated storage, and that is where many apps (e.g. email clients like Mail or Outlook) store their data. You can use Command-Shift-. (period) to toggle viewing of hidden folders. Or use Finder > Go menu > Go to Folder and enter ~/Library to open that folder directly.
Be careful deleting stuff in there, macOS hides it for a good reason. But looking in there can help you identify the apps that are storing large amounts of data, and you can probably delete some/most of that within the apps themselves (e.g., by deleting large email attachments within your email client).
Your user/home folder doesn't normally show the ~/Library folder in the list, but it is included in the calculated storage, and that is where many apps (e.g. email clients like Mail or Outlook) store their data. You can use Command-Shift-. (period) to toggle viewing of hidden folders. Or use Finder > Go menu > Go to Folder and enter ~/Library to open that folder directly.
Be careful deleting stuff in there, macOS hides it for a good reason. But looking in there can help you identify the apps that are storing large amounts of data, and you can probably delete some/most of that within the apps themselves (e.g., by deleting large email attachments within your email client).
I would guess that the other data is in your user's Library folder which is hidden by default. In Finder select Go To Folder under the Go menu and enter:
~/Library
That will open your user Library folder. You can then check the folders and see what might be taking up all that space. Mail attachments are one possibility.
Hope this helps. Regards.
Try and restart your Mac to see if the issues persist
It's still same
MacBook Air showing inaccurate storage calculation
