I was helping my girlfriend clear out space on her mac.
Step 1: see what’s taking up space
for this I used an awesome (free) app called Disk Inventory X
What I found out was that the largest file was a 12GB Chrome application.
That’s weird because the chrome on all of my machines is like 200MB tops.
So I used a lesser known trick of peeking inside the application to see what was going on.
You can do this by right clicking on the app and selecting “show package contents”
(if you don’t see that you’re probably looking at a shortcut, select “options” then “reveal in finder” and try again on the icon that pops up in finder)
Inside the “contents” folder is a “versions” folder and inside of that folder is where I found 3 YEARS of chrome versions!
Step 2: DELETE
Deleting all but the newest version gave her back over 11GB of space!
I don’t know why the old versions don’t get deleted or how common this is, but if you’re running chrome on a mac it’s worth checking out.