Hope this gives someone some avenues to investigate. In another sub, was mentioned for freeing up mac storage space. The above script is just for searching file contents which can take a while. Replace “cd / &” from the beginning with “cd ~ &” to just run it in your user directory. You can use quotes if what you’re searching has a space but you’d need to escape them with a back slash. Replace “server.xxx” in the command with for example, “teamviewer” without quotes. If it finds a hit, It prints the file content and file location. It searches inside each file for any mentions of. You can run this command to find leftover thingsĬd / & sudo find ~+ -type f -exec sh -c “cat \”\”” \ -print 2>/dev/null Someone else mentioned Apple Mail attachments.
After scanning, mark all the files that you would want to clean and. Select the Junk Cleaner module to clear your Mac’s system storage by deleting System Cache, Application Cache, System Logs, User Logs, etc.
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Someone like me, who also uses Terminal, wrote out these as locations from which debris should be removed: Here is how to clear system storage on Mac with PowerMyMac. Everywhere I’ve looked, it seems universally despised Malwarebytes mentioned as causing issues.
Mac cleaning apps mentioned for finding what is in the system and cleaning it out: Came across this \_disk\_other/ which summarizes Other and gives apps to view storage. An app called DaisyDisk can be used to see what is in System data. The primary files that System Data contains are Log files and caches, Temporary files, VM files, Fonts and plug-ins, App support files, Files and data used by the system, Runtime system resources. This site explains System Data and clearing it, but it's essentially an ad for the buho app. Many questions at Reddit have to do with large amounts of data in System Data and Other when looking in Storage from About This Mac.
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