Cruft Eliminator

[taiwan_girl]

@george-k I will have to remember this.

Based on your and @Axtremus rdcommdation, I bought an external SSD drive. I will have to see if I am also having that problem

[George K]

I ran it again, just out of curiosity:

[Mik]

That's interesting. When I run CCleaner I normally get just over 5GB cleaned. I think I had 80 one time.

[George K]

@mik said in Cruft Eliminator:

That's interesting. When I run CCleaner I normally get just over 5GB cleaned. I think I had 80 one time.

Go to Apple Menu-> About This Mac -> Storage and see how big the "other" category is. In my case it was about 800 gigs. Now down to about 275. I thought it was all that German p*rn, but then I realized I keep that on an external drive....

[Klaus]

@george-k said in Cruft Eliminator:

storage revealed that about 800 gig was "other"

In that dialog, you can press on "Manage" and see the individual files that are in that category, sorted by size.

[George K]

@klaus said in Cruft Eliminator:

@george-k said in Cruft Eliminator:

storage revealed that about 800 gig was "other"

In that dialog, you can press on "Manage" and see the individual files that are in that category, sorted by size.

Yeah, I've done that. Remarkably unhelpful.

[George K]

Note the "other" is greyed out at the bottom.

[taiwan_girl]

Interesting. When I first looked at it (1TB external hard drive SATA), is showed 113 MB used by other. After going back like one minute later, it was down to 56 MB used by other.

[Klaus]

Presumably, it doesn't matter what size is given for "Other", since it's stuff that will be removed by the OS if space becomes scarce.

[George K]

@klaus said in Cruft Eliminator:

Presumably, it doesn't matter what size is given for "Other", since it's stuff that will be removed by the OS if space becomes scarce.

Yes, that's what DaisyDIsk assured me. Still, I was surprised to see so much crap on the drive, and that it accumulated so quickly (over a month or so).

[jon-nyc]

First they came for the cruft.

But I was not cruft, so I said nothing....