![]() The dates have nothing at all to do with the actual Message date, and the filenames don't match the filename displayed in the Messages UI, but the preview in Get Info does show me the image. I have determined that the files mostly, if not all, things that were attached in Messages. I would just like to understand why that pesky imagent folder is so large - 21.5 GB - and how files end up in it. The usual culprits are google chrome caches, mobile back ups, steam games, etc. You should be able to find what’s taking up space. It will list all file folders by size in descending order. Still, it seems like I ought to be able to do more than that without constantly running out of space. Download Omni Disk Sweeper and install, give it full disk access in system prefs. Very little music (iTunes folder is 400 MB). The Documents folder (that houses all those exciting spreadsheets and my Quicken files) is 6.8GB. I don't often remove old messages, b/c I haven't found a straightforward way to easily clear out the detritus without also losing things I want to keep. Every few months, I clear out email and delete browser caches. OmniDiskSweeper is good at locating space-occupying files and also lets you know whether the file is an organizer or system file, so that you don’t delete anything critical. The application usually locates and deletes big files. That said, I lead a somewhat dull computing life. OmniDiskSweeper for Mac is a tool that helps clear space on your Mac by deleting unnecessary files. I don't doubt it, but it's what I could pay for, and so it's what I have. Re: This Mac just doesn't have enough storage. OnyX sounds like it's not such a hideous little gremlin, but also not necessary. I've spent some time reading up on CleanMyMac and now feel that I should give my keyboard a bath. Is it possible that the OS has had a few meltdowns and, in the process, somehow created a whole bunch of junk files? I can't think what I could possibly have done to create that many files that quickly. Some dates have only a few files, but three of the dates have thousands - one date has nearly 5000 files, all with timestamps in a 37-minute range and another with 2300 files in just 2 minutes. ![]() There are 28 unique dates from then until today. (The most recent date/timestamp was from today, while I wasn't even in the room.) The datestamps on the files begin in Jan 2019. But the dates on the files in that folder don't correspond to anything in Messages. The "im" in the name "imagent" makes me think the folder relates to Messages. If I look at "cache" in Activity Monitor, it tells me there is zero activity, zero files. No documents, video, music, or other files. My iCloud usage is less than 5GB (I don't pay for any extra space) and it consists of Calendar, Contacts, Mail, and Messages. I have turned off iCloud and signed out of my account: no change. Admittedly, you're undoubtedly leaving files on the hard drive that you could delete without harm if you do this, but it's also the only advice I can give you that couldn't cause you to accidentally delete something important.Thanks for the reply, MrHoffman, though I'm still puzzled. See: 'More ways to save space if you have a spare partition or second hard drive. ![]() Remember to empty the trash after trashing the files. Do not rely on restoring files from Time Machine delete only those files you never want to see again. The approach I generally recommend to folks who ask this question is that you're safest if you only delete files that you're sure you don't need any more. Delete with caution and do not delete any system files, for example files in /Library and /private. (As opposed to other applications, which will tell you "deleting this won't do any harm" - and then turn out to not be correct.) In general, we just try to steer away from tricking the user into thinking that we know more than we actually do. Knowing which files are used for which purposes is much, much harder - it would require knowledge about Mac OS X, about various applications, and information about the various modifications to the above that users could make. One of the reason why OmniDiskSweeper answers some questions (What files are taking up all the room on my hard drive?), while not answering others (What will happen if I delete this file from my hard drive?) is because we often don't know the answer to the latter question. A little more detail: when we designed OmniDiskSweeper, we wanted to make a tool that lets the user quickly find out where the space on their hard drive is going and then make decisions about what items they want to keep and which they want to delete to free up space.
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