Home Home app on Mac is over 27 GB in size??

[ideal.dreams]

Not sure if this forum is the best place for help on this issue but I was looking through my system storage on my Mac Studio and was surprised to see the Home app is taking up a whopping 27.7 GB of storage. I have 3 HKSV cameras so I'm assuming the storage is related to video cache but I don't know of a way to purge the cache.

Anyone run into this issue before and/or have a solution on how I can reclaim my storage space? I've restarted my Mac but it had no effect.

 

[marklemac]

On my iPhone (iOS 17)I'm currently at 98gb of Home Data !!!!!!!!

 

[smithrh]

6.5 MB here, and that's with a fairly robust setup.

 

[marklemac]

Now sat at 105.88GB of Home data, this is crazy. I do have 2 homes in my app with a combined 10 cameras.

 

[ideal.dreams]

I'm up to 36.22 GB on my Mac, up another 8.5 GB since posting last month. I believe this is a runaway cache issue associated with HKSV.

What's strange is that even deleting a camera's stored recordings has no impact on the cache size. You'd think cache files for videos that don't exist wouldn't be needed and would be purged...

 

[Ben J.]

I use DaisyDisk to see what's taking up space on my drives.

Very easy to use, inexpensive, and there's a time-limited fully functional trial that you can use to find out exactly what's in your home folder, sorted by folder/file size.

 

[marklemac]

So I solved my iPhone 107GB Home data file issue.

Signed out of iCloud, rebooted phone, deleted Home app, rebooted phone.

Left it for an hour to reclaim the free space as it then allocated the 107GB to the system data area but it was slowly going down.

Once it cleared I redownloaded the Home app, reconfigured the notifications (as they disappeared), re-added my Apple Pay cards and hey presto I'm back up and running with 107GB of reclaimed space.