Why is my mac saying that 114 GBs are being used for Music when I have no music files on my Mac?

A huge amount of my mac's storage is clogged up by what it says are 114 GBs of music files. Yet, I am not signed into my music account and I have no music files stored on my mac. I have also deleted my music cache, just to be sure.

iMac 24″, macOS 12.7

Posted on May 11, 2025 08:04 PM

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ed2345

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May 12, 2025 05:02 AM in response to KenB79

Is it possible that you have a bunch of music files that are on the Mac hard drive but are not indexed in the Music app? Use Finder to poke around.

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