Mystery “System” Disk Usage, APFS, Cookies, and More – Mac Geek Gab 745

Mysteries are meant to be solved, and when it comes to the mystery that is your "System" disk usage as displayed by macOS, well, that mystery's not even supposed to exist in the first place. Dave and John dig in to solve this plus a bunch of other questions sent in by you, dear listeners. Press play, listen, learn, and enjoy!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

• 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 745 for Monday, January 21, 2019


• 00:02:10 Daniel-App to monitor free disk space
  
  
  
  • Drive Genius’s Drive Pulse (though you can’t set threshold)
  
  
  • iStat Menus (set in Notifications)
  
  
  
  


• 00:05:32 Answers to Mystery “System” Storage Issues
  
  
  
  • DaisyDisk
  
  
  • OmniDiskSweeper (if running from Terminal, add to System Preferences | Security & Privacy | Full Disk Access)
  
  
  
  


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• 00:21:03 Ben-Mac mini and Display Choices
  
  
  
  • Monoprice 27” UHD Display
  
  
  • ViewSonic VP2768-4K
  
  
  
  


• 00:32:21 Julian-Mail won’t search
  
  
  
  • How can I rebuild Apple Mail’s database?
  
  
  
  


• 00:40:25 Mike-Beware Deleting Emails from Threads in Spark and Gmail


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• 00:46:02 Mike-APFS and External Drives


• 00:53:10 Joe-APFS Disk Utilities
  
  
  
  • DiskWarrior (not APFS-compatible)
  
  
  • Drive Genius (APFS-compatible!)
  
  
  
  


• 00:57:59 Don-Invalid inodes on APFS Volumes
  
  
  
  • “warning: inode_val: object (old 0x127081): invalid_bsd_flags (0x10)” when running First Aid on snapshots
  
  
  
  


• 01:04:07 Gray-744-Disable Ad Blockers on Specific Sites
  
  
  
  • Right-click on URL in Safari, choose “Settings for This Website,” can enable or disable ad blockers
  
  
  
  


• 01:08:04 Les-744-Blocked Cookies Were the Culprit


• 01:10:33 Joe-743-Compressed Air Usage


• 01:13:53 Robert-Thoughts on Fingbox
  
  
  
  • Plume SuperPods
  
  
  • eero
  
  
  
  


• 01:22:16 MGG 745 Outtro


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