Mac – System storage taking up WAY too much space on Macbook

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I moved some folders around on my system (from dropbox to google drive). This triggered a bunch of processing and eventually left my "System" taking 80+Gb's of space instead of 25-30Gb where it originally was. I have since deleted dropbox and google drive is synced up fine and only containing 13gb's. But System has been left in this state and now I have almost no storage space left!

Best Answer

You can use ncdu to analyze your disk usage. From its homepage:

Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup available, but it is a useful tool even on regular desktop systems. Ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.

It is available on homebrew (brew install ncdu).

Try

ncdu $HOME

or

ncdu /
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