I have been plagued with these constant messages on my MAC over the last couple of months. I dutifully followed all the common suggestions to clean up and recover more space.
I deleted all unnecessary video files, deleted trash, even moved my iTunes library to a separate drive. All these helped….A LITTLE…FOR A WHILE.
Yesterday I was down to 5 GB of free space on my start up drive! This morning I actually watched it go down to ZERO! Something was eating up my drive space..I was on mission to find the culprit or culprits.
I downloaded a nifty FREE little program called OMNI SWEEPER
This allowed me to see into the inner guts of my system to see what was taking up and eating so much space.
#1 was GMAIL
#2 was Adobe Raw Caches
I cleared the Adobe Raw Caches and freed up 10GB!! I Also went into the preferences in Photoshop and Lightroom and MOVED the cache over to another disk (not the start up disk)
I found in users/smathia/library a folder that contain over 20GB of “recovered messages”
Even after deleting the folder, Mail recreated it and continued downloading the message from Gmail. To solve the situation, I opened the Mail Preferences (Command + , ) and chose both my GMAIL accounts, I clicked on the Advanced tab and changed the “Keep a Copy for Offline viewing” setting below:
I am one happy camper now!!!
40GB of free space
Suzanne is a professional freelance photographer whose work regularly appears in Arizona Highways Magazine, as well as numerous national publications such as National Geographic,Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photographer and calendars for the Nature Conservancy, Smith Southwestern and The Global Action Team.
Suzanne is a photographer, speaker, author and educator. Teaching Lightroom and Photoshop in private and group settings.
Suzanne was born and raised amidst the green rolling hills of the English countryside but is now completely at home surrounded by the arid desert and swirling sandstone of the Southwest. She finds Arizona a land of intense beauty and preposterous contradiction. Her photographs capture the diversity of waterfalls, snow-capped mountains, autumn leaves and desert sands, from the magnitude of the immense landscape to the smallest, most discreet of details.
The desert can be unforgiving of even the smallest errors, treating the unprepared harshly. But, for the few with passion, those who are willing to begin their trek at the end of the road, the secret world of the Southwest is revealed. Suzanne loves to challenge the ruggedness of the land, the great distances to be traveled, and intense weather conditions to capture images of Arizona and the Southwest that expose its many treasures and extremes.
Her images reflect her keen sense of curiosity, patience and the ability to see the world and its magic places in new and creative ways.
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