Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: TimH Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Something is guzzling disk space Date: 28 Aug 2025 19:10:58 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 3Uqw+a8JVuXIIBmCYp4Ergz/z58Njb6ujSLBdYHSJW5491hotR Cancel-Lock: sha1:+PQ2C2wO+L5wGs53v8KBIJHtOPs= sha256:0y2RJnsezbchq8buaPQ8DL0LI9SgcxqimSnJh6bhxCc= User-Agent: Usenapp for MacOS X-Usenapp: v1.27.4/d - Full License Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.sys.mac:181775 On 28 Aug 2025 at 9:44:49 am BST, "D.M. Procida" wrote: > I've always been a bit tight on storage on my MacBook, at 500GB. > > Lately though something has guzzled an extra ~40GB, and it's hard to know > what. > > OmniDiskSweeper, which has always been useful, isn't able to peer into /var, > and I suspect it's there (36 GB for Multipasss!), or in logs somewhere, that > the storage is being consumed. > > A restart can claw back a few GB, but they disappear again soon. > > It's a bit rubbish to have to go on a file hunt in 2025, but what do you > recommend? GrandPerspective is still going, and works fine for me. https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ -- TimH pull tooth to reply by email