TidyMacShort answer
Open Finder, press Command-F, choose Kind › Other › File Size and set “is greater than” 1 GB. Or open System Settings › General › Storage › Documents › Large Files. In Terminal, find ~ -type f -size +1G 2>/dev/null lists every file over 1 GB in your home folder.
The steps
- Finder: Command-F, add File Size, set greater than 1 GB.
- System Settings › General › Storage › Documents › Large Files.
- Terminal: find ~ -type f -size +1G 2>/dev/null
Finder search
- Open a Finder window and press Command-F.
- Click Kind, choose Other…, tick File Size.
- Set is greater than 1 GB.
- Click This Mac to search everywhere.
Storage settings
System Settings › General › Storage › Documents (the ⓘ button) › Large Files. It also shows Downloads and Unsupported Apps.
Terminal
find ~ -type f -size +1G -not -path "*/Library/*" 2>/dev/null
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Where big files usually hide
- Downloads: disk images, ISOs, videos. Old installers
- Movies: exports and screen recordings.
- Hidden folders: AI models and virtual machines. Local AI models
Big files aren't the whole story
Large files you can see are rarely why System Data is huge. That's usually thousands of small cache files and snapshots. What System Data is