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Understand your Mac’s storage.
Make sense of storage totals, file ownership and large model caches before deciding what to remove. Explore more tasks in our Mac storage guides.
Diskfern Team
Developer storage
uv Cache Taking Up Space on Mac? What It Is and How to Clean It Safely
Found a large .cache/uv folder on your Mac? Learn what creates it, why uvx and MCP tools make it grow, and how to safely free up space.
Diskfern Team7 min read
Developer storage
Hugging Face Cache on Mac: Find Models, Revisions and Safely Free Space
Find your Hugging Face cache on Mac, inspect models and revisions, understand shared blobs and Xet, and preview cleanup with supported hf cache commands.
Diskfern Team9 min read
System Data & macOS
Is this Mac file safe to delete?
Found a huge file or folder on your Mac? Learn how to tell who owns it, whether it can be rebuilt, what deleting it affects, and the safest way to reclaim space.
Diskfern Team8 min read
System Data & macOS
Mac Library folders explained: what's safe to delete?
Learn what Caches, Application Support, Containers, and Group Containers store on a Mac, which files may be removable, and which folders you should leave alone.
Diskfern Team9 min read
Get your space back. Start with a free scan.
Explore the files and folders Diskfern can read. Your files stay on your Mac, and nothing is removed until you say so.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon and Intel