HDD full with "Other" - Big Sur

After updating (clean install) to Big Sur my HDD (125Gb) suddenly show's almost 42Gb of "Other" and is almost full. In the previous version of MacOs I had more than 80Gb available. What happend with the install of Big Sur and how can I free up my disk space?

MacBook Pro 13-inch 2017 125Gb 8Gb Ram

MacBook Pro

Posted on Nov 17, 2020 12:47 AM

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Nov 18, 2020 3:25 AM in response to Govert Pennings

A big part of the problem was the ~/library/Cashes/Cloudkit/ with was over 34Gb big

I deleted the complete folder and cleared the trashcan and it started to rebuild itself (as expected) and is now down to 10,4 MB

Nov 19, 2020 12:33 AM in response to Govert Pennings

Apparently this is no solution :(

The folder is filled back up again en keeps on doing that. Is iCloud bricked?

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