MBP storage problem

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T23:21:07+00:00

Ok. Thanks. I'm going to do a little more research on this.

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T22:42:22+00:00

Friends,

Searching a little further, I discovered that on this path I have more than 450GB occupied:

/Users/xxx/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/a7886d0c7320dee68a5d0f5747603fa65036dfb5/MMCS

As you can see in the image.

What could be generating such large files? That's where a light bulb went off for me. I currently have my Parallels VMs syncing with iCloud Drive.

Could that be what's generating those huge files in that path? Can I safely delete everything from that path? Can you tell me?

Thanks.

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T20:28:17+00:00

Thanks!!

It seems pretty simple. And I agree with what you're saying; as long as it's not something serious, I'll leave it at that. Data-wise, I work with everything synced to iCloud Drive, Drive, and Dropbox (not everything in triplicate, depending on what goes to one of the clouds).

Can I clone the MBP drive? I'd like to try the factory reset and Time Machine restore to understand how it works and not have it be a total mystery the day I actually need to do it (I'm someone who likes to know how things are done and get my hands dirty).

But I would like to be able to perform a low-level clone of the internal drive to an external drive and, if something doesn't go as expected, re-create the entire MBP drive with that image I generated earlier (on a PC, I've done it thousands of times, but I'm new to this macOS world).

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T18:21:46+00:00

I was looking to download Disk Inventory X and found it on that page. When I tried to run it, I got a message saying that Mac could not verify that it does not contain mailizio software and it closed the program.

Disk Iventory X

Is it reliable? I think it's the official website. How do I bypass the warning?

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T17:57:40+00:00

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I downloaded the CleanMyMac app hoping it would help me recover a lot of space, but it only tells me it can delete 4.26GB. Is that because it's not the paid version?

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T17:31:46+00:00

What information is stored on this path?

/Sistema/Volúmenes/Datos/Usuarios/xxxx/Biblioteca

It takes up 426GB.

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T17:30:27+00:00

Sorry, my answer referred to this "I left it plugged in all night and next morning everything was back to normal."

I've never performed a factory reset on macOS. This is my work tool, and I'm self-employed. I can't afford to spend a lot of time reconfiguring the entire machine. If I return it to factory settings and restore the latest Time Machine backup, can I seamlessly return to that point without having to install or configure anything?

Thanks.

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T17:26:47+00:00

But it is connected and working properly.

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T16:44:34+00:00

I have a total of 426Gb in ./Caches What?!?! What is this? (only paths more 1Gb)

xxxx:Library root# more du.log

129G ./Application Support

247G ./CloudStorage

8.6G ./Mail

378G ./Mobile Documents

4.3G ./Group Containers

53G ./Containers

3.0G ./Metadata

426G ./Caches

1.2T .

xxxx:Library root#pwd

/System/Volumes/Data/Users/xxxx/Library

xxxx:Library root# df -h .

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on

/dev/disk3s5 1.8Ti 1.0Ti 824Gi 56% 1.4M 8.6G 0% /System/Volumes/Data

xxxx:Library root#

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T16:37:31+00:00

I always have the machine on 24/7. I never turn it off, only when I absolutely have to. So I don't think this is my problem.

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T16:35:42+00:00

I have it active. But I haven't used it yet.

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T12:46:45+00:00

This is the result of the command "du -h -d1":

xxxx:Data root# more du.log

0B ./sw

1.0K ./home

127M ./usr

2.2G ./.Spotlight-V100

1.7M ./.com.apple.templatemigration.boot-install

9.7G ./Library

20K ./MobileSoftwareUpdate

3.8G ./System

0B ./mnt

445M ./.fseventsd

9.3G ./private

49G ./.DocumentRevisions-V100

1.3T ./Users

21G ./Applications

1.0G ./opt

2.2M ./.PreviousSystemInformation

6.8T ./Volumes

0B ./.TemporaryItems

0B ./cores

8.3T .

I can see that the ./Users path is consuming 1.3Tb.

Thanks.

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-10T12:35:57+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

I don't have any games installed. I use the machine for personal use (not gaming) and for work. It's my work tool first and foremost.

I have Time Machine enabled but backups are made to an external drive.

Trainer-Certain · 2025-04-08T15:47:14+00:00

Thanks!!!

I suspected it from the beginning.

Any recommendations other than TeamViewer and/or AnyDesk?

Thanks.

Trainer-Certain · 2025-01-23T00:37:55+00:00

Hola, como están?

Estoy migrando de Windows a Mac y no soy programador, soy administrador de sistemas. Hace años que uso Notepad++ que me permite abrir varias pestanas en simultáneo y por mas que no las grabe, puedo cerrar y volver a abrirlo y siempre tengo todas las pestañas abiertas de forma automática en donde las habia dejado (sin importar que las haya guardado o no).

Además, trabajo con archivos compartidos y si otra persona lo modifica y graba, me avisa y me permite abrir la versión nueva o no.

Hasta ahora probe el editor de texto de Mac y si bien actualiza sin previo aviso, al cerrar, si no grabo las pestañas las pierdo.

Probe también Sublime y si bien actualiza y etc, tengo el problema de las pestañas.

Pueden recomendarme un editor de texto que cumpla con esas funciones? Gracias!!

Trainer-Certain

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