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Macbook pro Big Sur and huge documents folder size.

In the About this Mac storage page Documents are taking up about 426GB of space (1TB SSD)


How can I find out what is actually in the documents space?

Looking in finder Documents there only seems to be one folder and a sub folder with no contents in either.

I only have about 40 gb of space left. All photos and videos which take up a lot of space are on the cloud.


Posted on Mar 29, 2022 5:27 AM

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Posted on Mar 30, 2022 11:35 AM

Documents are not just whats in your document folder. Any app that stores or creates a document including your desktop would shows as documents.

Find and delete files on your Mac - Apple Support

https://www.macworld.com/article/232792/how-to-find-your-documents-and-desktop-folder-contents-after-disabling-icloud-sync.html Omnidisksweeper might help you find them.

https://www.omnigroup.com/more If you have Adobe Acrobat. The files it saves are mostly documents.



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Mar 30, 2022 11:35 AM in response to Brian UK

Documents are not just whats in your document folder. Any app that stores or creates a document including your desktop would shows as documents.

Find and delete files on your Mac - Apple Support

https://www.macworld.com/article/232792/how-to-find-your-documents-and-desktop-folder-contents-after-disabling-icloud-sync.html Omnidisksweeper might help you find them.

https://www.omnigroup.com/more If you have Adobe Acrobat. The files it saves are mostly documents.



Macbook pro Big Sur and huge documents folder size.

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