blipblip [he/him, they/them]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • So my company provided MacBook managed to build up 400 gigs of 'system data' and I couldn't find any way through settings to identify what it was doing or how to go about cleaning it up. Ended up needing to download a third party tool to discover 300 gigs of temp files and 100 gigs of data lingering around from a deleted user account. Had to use the terminal to navigate to the directories and rm -rf them.

    Is this the normal mac experience or a skill issue? If I were more comfortable on the terminal I probably could've done without the third party tool but still it seems insane to me that there's no button in settings to clean up temp files.