I'd recommend using a program that tells you where all the storage goes to.
My OS has a simple facility that tells me I have 75GB left out of 250GB SSD drive on my laptop. That's OK but prompts me to run a finer grain program that tells me what my folder hierarchies contain. It good in that it tells me the total storage of each top-most folder, then dives into each of them, recursively telling how much each of the second, third, etc level folder contains. Doing this is constantly surprising! For example, I found that my photos and music were well over 10GB. And that my programming libraries (./node-modules) were absolutely out of control. And many apps and system tools have huge "caches" of files. My solution is to use DropBox, a cloud storage and sync (sync == keep the files synchronized over my various computers, tablets and phone). Syncing can actually cause a huge *increase* in storage, but DB has a simple setting that tells it to just use the cloud version, thus turning into a fairly easily managed system. DB also lets me share files with others easily, so for example I can share a model/simulation I'm working on with others. Github also solves this sort of storage but I think isn't germane here. Google Docs might, however. So I developed a simple approach to DB: any keystroke I make ends up there: i.e. all docs I create is on DB. Photos, no .. I take the pictures but don't edit them .. i.e. add/subtract bits, thus they do not fall under the DB range, just backup. DB isn't cheap .. it starts out free for up to 6 GB but its first paid level is $100/year for 1TB. And it hasn't got all the features I need. But so far is the best for me. I find that my cog load for my own docs is around 20GB so am happy with cloud storage for all the rest. And actually, a lot of my cloud storage is a form of backup. Do you have a similar situation? I realize storage is "domain specific". -- Owen
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