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MacOS Sequoia filling up with system data

I have a 2023 Mac Studio M2 with 1 TB SSD and a week ago there was 600GB of free space. I updated Adobe CC yesterday and when I reopened After Effects I got the message that I didn't have enough disk space for the cache. I checked and there was only 90GB free space. I then restarted the machine, deleted the Adobe cache (6gb), deleted my Time Machine snapshots, deleted all the other caches. I ended up with 258GB of free space. A check of the storage list shows that I still have 492GB of system data and I can't get rid of it.


Any suggestions?


Mac Studio, macOS 15.0

Posted on Oct 17, 2024 12:49 PM

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Posted on Nov 27, 2024 7:03 AM

Exact same story here with Mac M1 Pro - Sequoia update exploded the system data and deleting items from documents seems to only shift data from there to system. I trashed 260GB of video from documents and saw a corresponding increase in system data. I don't use time machine. Other fixes suggested don't do anything. Lack of free space seems to be causing other buggy issues with performance and random rebooting. Would love an actual update to fix this, or easier way to downgrade to macOS 14.

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