At this point, it has become a ritual to free up space on my MacBook because it frequently runs on low storage space, but this time, instead of running an automated cleaning tool, I used DaisyDisk to find out what's taking up so much space.

And it turns out that macOS maintained a huge library of snapshots of two wallpapers that I had used long ago.

Each of these files was around 10 MB in size; there were 4,454 such files in my system, taking up a whopping 51.3 GB of disk space:

Surprisingly, this folder was left untouched by the cleaning tools I used, such as Mole, and therefore, flew under the radar. I cleared up 50 GB of disk space by deleting everything in that folder.

This has been a reported issue for a while, but I don't see anything piling up again, so I believe it's fixed.

The exact file path might differ for you, but it's worth investigating the com.apple.wallpaper.caches folder under a root folder called private on your system to see if your Mac has a large cache, too.

Note: Since this isn't a regular folder, I'd suggest you proceed with caution when clearing files from here. I didn't see any issues after I cleared the folder, but do it at your own risk. 😄

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