Lack of disk space
Hi all
I have a problem with my SSD 512 GB on my Macbook Pro retina 2013. 80 GB are missing and I do not know where... I've looked everywhere, I have no other partition on my Macintosh HD (2 years ago I used BootCamp with Windows, then removed and also deleted the partition), I have only one user...
Here are some screenshots where we see that about 300 GB are used, and only 110 GB are available (500-110 = 390), so there are 80 GB missing somewhere but I don't know where, he did for months and I can't:
And during a verification with OmniDiskSweeper, it's the same space as Finder (about 300GB):
Please help me! Thanks to you all!
I found it!
First, run OmniDiskSweeper with terminal sudo to run it as an administrator:
# sudo OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
And here we are...
Two hidden directories:. MobileBackups &. MobileBackups.trash = 80 GB.
It's a local backup to TimeMachine, useless in my case, so here is the command to turn it off:
# sudo tmutil disablelocal
And here we go, 80 GB free space! I found out about this here: https://classicyuppie.com/what-crap-is-this-os-xs-mobilebackups/
Hope this will help others
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