Managing Storage macOs and iCloud

[mac98aop]

Me again

I'm finding it increasingly tricky to manage all storage for our family across all our devices.

MacOS

We're all separate users on our iMac, and when I look at About This Mac > Storage, it says there's 230+ GB in Other Users. That sounds like a lot and I'm wondering if anybody has any tips about any potential culprits or ginormous folders of logs or caches or...?!

iOS

We have 200GB of Family Sharing which is plenty. What I don't understand is that when I'm reviewing the breakdown from my Admin account, my daughter's iCloud Documents reports 7GB of Documents Storage. But, when you log in to her account there's nothing like that in her iCloud Drive Documents folder, so presumably it's collating several others?

We're currently on 14 days quarantine having had to return early from France, so thought I'd do a bit of housekeeping! Any tips? I'm not too bad at managing single user (Mac and iOS) storage but finding it less easy with multiple. I'd prefer to do some culling, rather than simply buying more storage for slowly accrued clutter!

Thanks folks

Adam

[Paul R Owen]

I think the iCloud account covers all you devices that requires storage, including your daughters iMac account.

Paul Owen

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[mac98aop]

Hmm, I don't think that can be it, Paul, as the iMac is saying there's +230GB of Other Users being stored on the iMac's hard drive itself. I'm just wondering what that is, and where?!