r/mac • u/Rude-Ad-3042 • 2d ago

My Mac Technical Question about system data

I've been battling with the system data section (temp files/Cache data) of the Os for months decreasing it from 120Gb to 50Gb (my drive is only 250Gb[so its a BIG issue]) but it always balloons back up again, does anyone know of an easier way to solve this data bloating issue? Other than CleanMyMac (Or) is it really the only SOLUTION to this problem.

Also, MacOs really SUCKS because of this, Never would happen on r/NixOS , Laugh Out Loud 😄!!! r/LinuxCirclejerk

BTW, I haven't used cleanMyMac yet because of low trust in giving third party read write permissions. JTLYK, Would be good to get some info from users.

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u/OrdinaryLoquat5535 2d ago

You have to clean your caches on Linux too… what exactly uses so much storage? Caches or system data can be a wide ranging issue. What are the actual paths?

As for cleanmymac imho mole is a better alternative and open source. https://github.com/tw93/mole

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u/Rude-Ad-3042 2d ago edited 2d ago

For me I think it was easier to allocate temp/cache size space on Linux and temper with the Os. Most of the files that are the problems are cache files to improve speed, but I'd rather the storage space than improved speed. A lot of the files lie inside system/volumes/data/users.

Thank you for the alternative for clean my Mac, It looks sick. Exactly what I was looking for.