Why does 'com.apple.mediaanalysisd' take up 50 GB of storage on my Mac running macOS Sequoia?

Hi, I have a problem with the aforementioned file com.apple.mediaanalysisd, which takes unexusable amount of space of my disk. I mean, the System folder is about 60 GB and this weird container another 50 GB.


I am on macOS Sequoia 15.4.1, but it was the same before with the earlier version of Sequoia. How to order macOS to stop creating this container?


The problem is that when I delete it, Spotlight search stops working (obviously, I use Alfred, but it cannot show files as it depends on an OS component that is supposed to be high quality, which is clearly not the case).


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MacBook Pro 13″

Posted on May 14, 2025 12:15 AM

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Why does 'com.apple.mediaanalysisd' take up 50 GB of storage on my Mac running macOS Sequoia?

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