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

2 pointsarchibaldJ2 comments

This is super strange. All I've ever used my mac for is web dev.

Yet I'm constantly running out of space.

For example in Storage under System Information, it shows that "Other" takes up 350GB of data.

What are some good ways (eg trusted paid apps) to free up MacOS disk space? Thanks!

Apologies in advance if this is super obvious! I'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 ~/Library/Caches. Right now, it'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't use. A big chunk could be iCloud, so you could 'remove download' on larger directories that have downloaded to your device.

There're a couple of apps. I'm still using this really old, free, open source one, called grande perspective:

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

I like it enough and it always helps me quickly figure out where all my disk space went.

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