User folder uses more space than my hard drive icon says is available

I just emptied my trash folder and expected my internal Hard Drive space to increase by 2GB however, according to the internal Hard Drive desktop icon it increased by ~34GB. I searched through all my files and can't figure out what's missing. Info about my user folder (-I) displayed it was using 864gb which is what I expected it to be without the extra 30gb... However, my hard drive still indicates 198gb available. Edit: 10 minutes later info ((⌘-I) about my user folder is 1.03tb.


Is it possible that the phantom 30gb does not represent data mistakenly deleted and resulted from some routine/normal background process?


Other than comparing to Time Machine (which was many changes ago) is there a way to find out what files or types of files were deleted, eg. a log, etc?


Thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Nov 5, 2022 02:07 PM

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Posted on Nov 5, 2022 10:43 PM

NVM. I figured out what files were deleted... though I have yet to figure out how they ended up in the trash.

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