That “your disk is almost full” notification is one of the more frustrating things your Mac can throw at you, especially when you have no idea what’s taking up all the space. A good rule of thumb is to keep at least 10% of your drive free, but figuring out what’s eating into that can feel like a mystery.
Visual tools like GrandPerspective and DaisyDisk give you a colorful map of what’s on your drive, which is great if you want a bird’s-eye view. But if you just want something simple that gets straight to the point, the free OmniDiskSweeper is worth a look. It lists your folders sorted by size, so you can drill down level by level until you find the biggest culprits and trash them on the spot.
The screenshot below is a good example of what you might find. It shows the now-discontinued ChatGPT Atlas browser still sitting on a Mac and consuming several gigabytes of cache space. Out of sight, out of mind, but not out of your storage. A good reminder that deleting an app doesn’t always mean its files are gone too.
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(Featured image generated by Adam Engst with ChatGPT)
