Mac storage guides
What each folder is, whether you can delete it, and how. One page per folder, no guesswork.
- Caches~/Library/Caches
- DerivedData~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData
- CoreSimulator Caches~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Caches
- iOS DeviceSupport~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport
- node_modules<project>/node_modules
- npm cache~/.npm/_cacache
- pnpm store~/Library/pnpm/store
- Yarn cache~/Library/Caches/Yarn
- Homebrew cache~/Library/Caches/Homebrew
- pip cache~/Library/Caches/pip
- CocoaPods cache~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods
- Cargo registry~/.cargo/registry
- Playwright browsers~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright
- Mail Downloads~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads
- Logs~/Library/Logs
- Trash~/.Trash
- iPhone software updates~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates
- Final Cut Pro render files(inside each Final Cut library)
- Google Chrome cache~/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome
- Safari cache~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Caches
- Spotify cache~/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client
- Slack cache~/Library/Application Support/Slack/Cache
- JetBrains caches~/Library/Caches/JetBrains
- Conda package cache~/miniconda3/pkgs (or ~/anaconda3/pkgs)
- CoreSimulator Devices~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices
- Xcode Archives~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives
- Gradle caches~/.gradle/caches
- Go module cache~/go/pkg/mod
- Ollama models~/.ollama/models
- Hugging Face cache~/.cache/huggingface
- iPhone and iPad backups~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
- Messages attachments~/Library/Messages/Attachments
- GarageBand sound library/Library/Application Support/GarageBand
- iMovie render files~/Movies/iMovie Library.imovielibrary
- VS Code extensions~/.vscode/extensions
- Android SDK~/Library/Android/sdk
- Android emulators (AVD)~/.android/avd
- .cache~/.cache
- Docker.raw~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/data/Docker.raw
- sleepimage/private/var/vm/sleepimage
- swapfile/private/var/vm/swapfile0
- Time Machine local snapshots(APFS snapshots, not a folder)
- Application Support~/Library/Application Support
- Containers~/Library/Containers
- Group Containers~/Library/Group Containers
- Photos Library~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary
- Xcode simulator runtimes/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Volumes
- /private/var/folders/private/var/folders
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