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New M1 24" iMac. Problem with SSD storage

512 SSD, transferred most from older iMac with fusion drive. Says only 10 GB left - after removing many applications, and old files. But documents still are 395 GB and when I go to the list of files, there is nowhere near 395 GB listed. How can I find out what is being stored there so I can delete unnecessary stuff?

iMac 27″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Nov 26, 2022 10:16 AM

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Posted on Nov 29, 2022 9:36 AM

Yeah OmniSweeper works and is free. I bought DaisyDisk in the AppStore for $5 years ago and it's similar and a bit nicer to use. For example, you can hover the mouse of the blocks graphically laid out in a daisy wheel, click and deep dive. Find stuff you didn't even know about. In my case I have old disk images that are quite large. Drag and drop to the collector circle in the lower left and then you can delete them all.


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Nov 29, 2022 9:36 AM in response to Harry Doerr

Yeah OmniSweeper works and is free. I bought DaisyDisk in the AppStore for $5 years ago and it's similar and a bit nicer to use. For example, you can hover the mouse of the blocks graphically laid out in a daisy wheel, click and deep dive. Find stuff you didn't even know about. In my case I have old disk images that are quite large. Drag and drop to the collector circle in the lower left and then you can delete them all.


Nov 26, 2022 8:01 PM in response to Harry Doerr

Do you have Desktop & Documents configured to sync to iCloud?


Press CMD+Spacebar and type in 'iCloud' and look for the one with the Gear icon and click it. Then click on iCloud Drive then the Options button. Make sure Desktop & Documents Folders is NOT checked.


If that is turned on, it will try to sync your Desktop & Documents to the iCloud Drive. How much storage do you have on iCloud?

New M1 24" iMac. Problem with SSD storage

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