I just had my machine start warning about low disc space again. This is the tradeoff for SSDs – 256 gigabytes is not much nowadays. Upgrades are pretty pricey, though they’ve been dropping – when my 2010 Air was new, I think that 480g drive was around $1200.
So I fired up Disk Inventory X and started digging. Some stuff was to be expected – yeah, a fair amount of space dedicated to swapfiles, okay, a Steam game I’d forgotten to uninstall when I was done with it, okay. But there were some surprises, too. Quicksilver had a huge pile of of old clipboard caches, going back for I don’t know how long, that totaled something like 5-6 gigs; a few installation disc images left over from fooling with the Pi were eating up like 10g… some random clicking around on the bigger objects in the display and deleting things that didn’t need to be there got me back up to about 37 gigs free, from a low point of a half a gig. Definitely worth a few minutes of my time.
Here’s where I ended up afterwards. The big block of blue stuff, with a few grey and cyan bits here and there, is my music collection. The much smaller block with the yellow outline is everything I’ve drawn on my computer since 1999, when I ditched my old Amiga for my first hand-me-down Mac. Man I love how compact vector art is compared to bitmaps.