Re: [WAMUG] [WAMUG} System Data hogging disc space

[Tim Law]

Good afternoon

Following up with a solution for this. 

The culprit ended up being Carbon Copy Cloner which was storing snapshots and 
they added up to over 360Gb. I found in CCC preferences that I could both 
delete old snapshots, but also reset the settings to leave 200Gb of space on 
the HDD instead of the preset 30Gb. 

I trust is useful. 


> On 16 Jan 2022, at 1:44 pm, Tim Law  wrote:
> 
> Good afternoon, 
> 
> I am running OSX 12.1 Monterey on a 2017 iMac with a 1 TB SSD
> 
> In About this Mac - Storage - it showing I have 387 GB of System Data
> 
> One of the things I have found is a folder inside System/Library called dyld 
> that contains 28 GB of cache files. I poked around in here after googling 
> what could be hogging the disc space. One reference suggests I can delete 
> this cache files as the OSX will rebuild them as needed. That reference was 
> from 2012. Is that information still accurate or should I back out and stop 
> looking. 
> 
> Any other hints on the mysterious 387 GB on the disc. I use CleanMyMac and 
> that is supposed to clean extraneous files left from previous OSX. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim
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[WAMUG} System Data hogging disc space

[Tim Law]

Good afternoon, 

I am running OSX 12.1 Monterey on a 2017 iMac with a 1 TB SSD

In About this Mac - Storage - it showing I have 387 GB of System Data

One of the things I have found is a folder inside System/Library called dyld 
that contains 28 GB of cache files. I poked around in here after googling what 
could be hogging the disc space. One reference suggests I can delete this cache 
files as the OSX will rebuild them as needed. That reference was from 2012. Is 
that information still accurate or should I back out and stop looking. 

Any other hints on the mysterious 387 GB on the disc. I use CleanMyMac and that 
is supposed to clean extraneous files left from previous OSX. 

Thanks

Tim
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