#MAC SYSTEM STORAGE FOR SPEECH IS HUGE HOW TO#

Turning on 'Calculate folder sizes' that Mail folder showed as 24GB. That gave me the clue to look in the ~/Library/Mail folder. The System went down to 90GB (which is still high but better), and Mail showed up 95GB. I had done a Spotlight rebuild, which didn't reclaim the space, but what it did do (I think) is change totals in About>Storage>Manage. Turns out the answer came out of left field.

#MAC SYSTEM STORAGE FOR SPEECH IS HUGE HOW TO#

It would seem to me that perhaps thereвЂ™s some that went wrong with the recent conversion from HFS+ to APFS when she installed Mojave.ДЄny ideas on how to reclaim the space without reinstalling from scratch? There must be SOME way to see whatвЂ™s occupying the space. So, talking her through a full reinstall will be a big challenge.

The problem is, my friend with this laptop is traveling thru Europe and is not technically savvy. Some have thrown their hands up wiped out their hard drive and reinstalled (which has fixed this issue for some).

booting into Recovery Mode and running Disk Repair reported everything fine.

revealing hidden files did NOT reveal anything out of the ordinary.

running TimeMachine did NOT clean things up, as reported by some.

itвЂ™s NOT a runaway Spotlight index, as it was for some people.

itвЂ™s NOT local TimeMachine snapshots, as was the answer for some people.

Researching a bit, I found some possibilities that havenвЂ™t panned out. We also ran GrandPerspective and it does not вЂњseeвЂќ any inordinately large files. Running OmniDiskSweeper with the sudo command via Terminal, it confirms what the Finder is reportingвЂ¦that there should be about 90GB instead of 245GB. Looking at things via the Finder, we only see about 90GB of stuff total and only 9GB in the System directory and 6GB in the main Library folder. Looking at About>Storage>Manage, it seems most of the occupied space is System (168GB worth). A MBPro with a 250GB running the latest Mojave suddenly went from 100GB+ of free space to 5GB and is warning us about running out.

Mac system storage for speech is huge