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    Less free space on new Mac after migration?

    I just upgraded to a base model MacBook Air M1 from a 12" MacBook Retina, both with 256 GB's of storage. I used Migration Assistant to transfer my data from Mac-to-Mac and I now have an extra 40 GB's of used space on the new Mac. Has anyone else had this issue? If so, how did you solve?
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    Storage in /System/Volumes/Data doesn't add up ("Other" taking a lot)

    I'm confused by the storage stats. I have a macOS Big Sur under APFS (~736 Gi with 578 Gi used) and also a BootCamp Windows (~189 Gi with ~143 Gi used) alongside. "System Information" says I only have ~156G left (= 143Gi) left in macOS, which is consistent with the command df -h as shown below...
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    Help! Hidden Space rapidly taking over on macOS 10.15.1

    Two days ago, my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017; macOS 10.15.1 Catalina) told me it was out of storage space. With a 500GB SSD, free space had dropped to 90 MB without me adding any files of significant size. First step: Purge I proceeded to scan through and remove unnecessary files, clearing about...
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