Apple have increased control of what can be seen by Apps so the apps listed as answers will not work fully without some extra configuration. Does this make sense? Is there a tool that I can run to determine where this space is going? Assuming it is FileVault, should I try to disable it? What's the best way to turn of FileVault on a nearly full computer? Warning about answers and new macOSįor users of Ventura and newer macOS. One possibility that I can think of is that FileVault has some sort of disk leak, allocating but not freeing files.

It's possible that it's a rogue iTunes podcast or a huge software update that my Mac is automatically downloading - would either of these reclaim the space upon a restart? However, I can't identify anything in my personal activity that consumed that space. Curiously, restarting the computer will enable me to recover gigabytes of space (this past time, it was able to recover about 2.2GB).

Every few days I get notices on my MacBook that it's running or run out of hard drive space.

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