Apps folder is showing wrong size and stealing my disk space

After updating to Monterey I found that I have a lack of free space. With help of Storage Analize utility I found that my Apps folder is taking somehow almost 137 GB of space!



But if I'm getting info about size of the Apps folder directly from macOS I get 17 GB and it's sounds legit, because I don't have much apps.



How should I free space and how to find what takes it?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.5

Posted on Sep 1, 2022 02:16 AM

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Sep 1, 2022 03:01 AM in response to iAlexandre

To compare, on this M Class Apple Silicon computer with very few Applications installed other than the Stock Apple Applications and a few other small applications


In same location ) report Method - showing 5.42 GB but in Finder report 5.98 GB


Support Files of the Applications, Application cache files etc account for some extra reported Space Used



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