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Image 1 — APFS says I’m using 905 GB. The filesystem can only find ~612 GB. Where did 200+ GB go?
Image 2 — APFS says I’m using 905 GB. The filesystem can only find ~612 GB. Where did 200+ GB go?
Image 3 — APFS says I’m using 905 GB. The filesystem can only find ~612 GB. Where did 200+ GB go?
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APFS says I’m using 905 GB. The filesystem can only find ~612 GB. Where did 200+ GB go?

APFS says I’m using 905 GB. The filesystem can only find ~612 GB. Where did ~250 GB go?

I’ve been chasing a storage issue on macOS for weeks and am looking for a sanity check before I wipe/reinstall.

What I’m seeing:

  • 1 TB SSD
  • APFS container reports 905 GB used
  • DaisyDisk shows ~216 GB “Hidden Space”
  • du can only account for ~612 GB on the Data volume

Relevant numbers:

diskutil apfs list

APFS Data volume:

870.6 GB

But:

sudo du -xhd 1 /System/Volumes/Data

returns:

612 GB

Things I’ve already ruled out:

  • Time Machine snapshots
  • Local snapshots
  • VM/swap files
  • Spotlight
  • Document Revisions
  • CloudDocs/iCloud cache (currently only a few hundred MB)

One possibly relevant detail: this started after a major iCloud Desktop/Documents sync disaster involving hundreds of GB of data. The iCloud mess is gone, but the missing space remains.

Has anyone seen APFS report ~250 GB more usage than du can find?

At this point I’m trying to determine whether this is:

  1. APFS accounting corruption
  2. Orphaned extents/blocks
  3. Some APFS storage category that normal tools can’t see
  4. Something else entirely

Any diagnostic commands or ideas before I boot into Recovery and run fsck_apfs?

[AI disclosure: Claude helped me troubleshoot and write up this issue]

u/prophetsearcher — 15 days ago
▲ 3 r/iCloud+2 crossposts

Total mess after syncing Documents & Desktop

After upgrading iCloud to 2TB, I enabled Desktop/Documents sync. Soon, my Claude code projects broke—iCloud was fragmenting files mid-sync. I disabled sync, but iCloud left a large CloudDocs folder. Within it, a "Session i" folder of ~300GB contained (all?) my files, but flattened and renamed to random strings, losing structure.

I backed up Session i to an external drive. Because my computer was trying to manage both that session/i directory as well as re-loading the original Docs folder, I ran out of disk space and had to delete the Session i folder (after copying it externally).

Now I have three parts: (1) the flat, randomly named "Session i" backup, (2) iCloud with structure but missing files (I can see the files and directories but not copy them en masse), (3) a 3-week-old SuperDuper backup.

I’m stuck: Should I try to reintegrate Session i’s renamed files, risk iCloud sync again, or revert to the old backup and manually recover newer files? There's now a new CloudDocs folder next to the old one that I renamed, and I'm not sure if I can reintegrate them.

Any technical guidance on how to reconstruct from these partial states would be much appreciated! Is there some sort of iCloud genius I can hire to help me? I know I messed up (probably more than once) and I'm totally stuck.

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u/prophetsearcher — 28 days ago
▲ 4 r/FigmaDesign+1 crossposts

Looking for templates and UI patterns for webapps

There are lots of great website templates online, but mostly for landing pages, shops, and dashboards.

Are there any resources of designs for webapps? Like, if I were trying to create a version of Wix or Webflow, are there relevant designs or component systems I can use for those types of interactive UI elements?

I'm thinking of components like media editors, drag+drop tools, screen builders, etc.

Thanks

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u/prophetsearcher — 6 months ago