#Onyx mac mojave clean cache manual

Still, my disk says '68.64 GB (28.33 GB purgeable)' (the purgeable portion varies: some days it's as low as 8GB, others it grows to 60-ish).Įven if you disable 'Back Up Automatically' you can still do manual time machine backups – that is all I cared about, so I didn't re-enable the automatic backups. For what I've read, a potentially big source of 'purgeable space' waste is IOS backups (which I have zero, since don't use iPhones or iPads – so I can't help there). Choose how far back you want your browsing history cleared. Step 2 Type in '/Library/Caches' and hit 'Enter' key to proceed to this folder. In the Safari app on your Mac, choose History > Clear History, then click the pop-up menu. If `tmutil listlocalsnapshotsdates /` outputs nothing on your system, then you don't have local time machine snapshots and the source of wasted space must be something else. Step 1 Open 'Finder' app on Mac and select 'Go to Folder' in the 'Go' menu.

So I searched around and found about the `tmutil` terminal command. I did that (I'm still on Mojave) but the 100GB 'purgeable space' ('Get info' on the drive in finder to learn how much space you are wasting) wouldn't be freed. In theory, if you disable 'Back Up Automatically' the local snapshots should go away after a while (that's the gist of the apple support article) and you can then re-enable the functionality to start accumulating snapshots again (assuming you want that). Time machine also saves local snapshots of your data: try 'enter time machine' and you'll see recent snapshots even if you don't connect the external HDD.

Onyx mac mojave clean cache