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Ask HN: Best way/apps to manage & free up macOS disk space?

2 pointsby archibaldJalmost 3 years ago
This is super strange. All I&#x27;ve ever used my mac for is web dev.<p>Yet I&#x27;m constantly running out of space.<p>For example in Storage under System Information, it shows that &quot;Other&quot; takes up 350GB of data.<p>What are some good ways (eg trusted paid apps) to free up MacOS disk space? Thanks!

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halfdaftalmost 3 years ago
Apologies in advance if this is super obvious! I&#x27;ve tried apps to free up storage but now I just do two things: every so often, especially after completing a large project, I delete everything in ~&#x2F;Library&#x2F;Caches. Right now, it&#x27;s 56GB. MacOS immediately starts repopulating it with current, required cache, but it does make a difference. The other simple fix is order applications by size in Finder, delete the largest ones that you don&#x27;t use. A big chunk could be iCloud, so you could &#x27;remove download&#x27; on larger directories that have downloaded to your device.
terhechtealmost 3 years ago
There&#x27;re a couple of apps. I&#x27;m still using this really old, free, open source one, called grande perspective:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a><p>I like it enough and it always helps me quickly figure out where all my disk space went.