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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
System consumed over 300GB of disk overnight.
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<blockquote data-quote="jhawkinsvalrico" data-source="post: 1744656" data-attributes="member: 388026"><p>It turned out that for some reason something put a 'cloned' version of my home folder in the folder in /Volumes/John. I wasn't completely certain if the files were duplicates, but everything that I saw in Finder and using terminal led me to suspect that the folder was a duplicate. I had a backup disk from last evening's SuperDuper backup, but to be safe did a second backup to another external USB disk and then deleted the /Volumes/John folder and held my breath. Sure enough I now have all of the disk space back and all of my user files are intact. I am not certain what went haywire, but I suspect that a Chronosync task that was running encountered an issue leaving the folder 'orphaned' on the system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jhawkinsvalrico, post: 1744656, member: 388026"] It turned out that for some reason something put a 'cloned' version of my home folder in the folder in /Volumes/John. I wasn't completely certain if the files were duplicates, but everything that I saw in Finder and using terminal led me to suspect that the folder was a duplicate. I had a backup disk from last evening's SuperDuper backup, but to be safe did a second backup to another external USB disk and then deleted the /Volumes/John folder and held my breath. Sure enough I now have all of the disk space back and all of my user files are intact. I am not certain what went haywire, but I suspect that a Chronosync task that was running encountered an issue leaving the folder 'orphaned' on the system. [/QUOTE]
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