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AI Coding Tools Were Quietly Using 32 GB of My Mac. Claude Alone Took 13.

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My MacBook told me its disk was almost full. 5.5 GB free out of 245 GB. My Pictures folder is 93 MB. My Documents folder is under 40 MB. So where did 240 GB go? macOS had an answer, sort of: "System Data", 147 GB . More than half the disk, in one grey bar, with no way to click into it. I measured w…

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  1. 2026-10-19 20:23 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Coding Tools Were Quietly Using 32 GB of My Mac. Claude Alone Took 13.

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