Storage Discovery
Find and Review Large Files on Mac
Over 60% of wasted space on developer and creator Macs is trapped in a handful of massive files: abandoned ISO images, old DMG installers, uncompressed 4K video exports, and dormant model weights.
Common Large File Culprits on macOS
Virtual Machine Disks (.raw, .qcow2, .vdi)
Old UTM, Parallels, or Docker desktop virtual disk bundles consuming 30 GB to 80 GB each.
Local AI Model Weights (.gguf, .bin, .safetensors)
Quantized LLM weight files and diffusion models often taking 4 GB to 45 GB per checkpoint.
Stale Disk Images (.dmg, .pkg, .iso)
Installers downloaded months ago left lingering inside ~/Downloads or hidden temp folders.
Simulator Device Runtimes
Archived Xcode simulator runtimes (iOS 16, watchOS 9) consuming 10 GB to 15 GB each.
Manual Terminal Search for Large Files
You can search your home directory for files larger than 1 GB using the macOS find utility:
Find Files Larger than 1 GB
# Find all files larger than 1 GB in your home directory
find ~ -type f -size +1G -exec ls -lh {} + 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $5, $9}' | sort -hr