System taking too much space | masOS High Sierra

Dears,

I'm having trouble with my Macbook that have 128GB SSD. The point is that the system is computing a larger than real space, and I can't change it.

Just to argue, I added the values indicated by "About this Mac" and the result was 151.52 GB (used space + free space), and my SSD only has 128 GB of total space.

I am attaching images to this thread.

Does anyone know what to do?

Pictures related: https://imgur.com/a/H8rxw

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Oct 24, 2017 5:50 AM

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Luis Sequeira1

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Posted on Mar 17, 2018 3:15 AM

Coming late to this, but a very common cause of this "system taking too much space" is merely Time Machine local snapshots.

Try this in the Terminal:

tmutil lislocalsnapshots /

You are likely to see a long list of snapshots.

You can delete specific snapshots, or you can "thin" the space occupied:

sudo tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 10000000000 4

Enter your password as requested (no characters show while you type it), press enter and wait a little.

(the number indicated is roughly 10GB, so the command will try to clear out about that space)

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Lexiepex

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Jan 19, 2018 8:55 AM in response to rustem.galiullin.russia

Who are you? the OP is p.alvescorrea.

Do you have an issue? start your own thread.

heboo7

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Jan 19, 2018 9:02 AM in response to Lexiepex

Sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you!! WOW

Mar 8, 2018 6:46 PM in response to Lexiepex

Why should someone start a new thread for the same issue? You do not need to be condescending.

Mar 8, 2018 7:42 PM in response to rustem.galiullin.russia

https://www.macworld.com/article/2030221/macs/our-favorite-mac-cleanup-tips.html

jarvinho

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Mar 16, 2018 6:13 AM in response to Csound1

I have this same problem, but every time I try to backup using Time Machine, the backup fails.

Do you have any other ideas as to how to fix this problem?

Lexiepex

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Mar 16, 2018 2:38 PM in response to deborahpt

Mail Downloads is not used anymore and normally is empty.

Lexiepex

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Jan 19, 2018 8:53 AM in response to heboo7

heboo7: who are you? you did not post the question. If you have the same question as the original poster (OP), then you can read here to solve it. And on one of the pictures of the OP you can see that there is about 63GB free on his disk.

Csound1

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Oct 24, 2017 6:20 AM in response to p.alvescorrea

Back up your Mac, erase your Mac, restore the data (only) from your backup

Lexiepex

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Oct 24, 2017 8:27 AM in response to p.alvescorrea

No I did not say that. This is a fault/bug that is caused by APFS.

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System taking too much space | masOS High Sierra