Synkron is great apart from this one caveat, so to keep using it, I found the invisible folder under /Users/(me)/.Synkron.
#Synkron folder under users free
I downloaded the free Disk Inventory X, and bingo - Synkron was using 350GB in an invisible folder!!! It seems to be keeping a cache of each time I backup, so I was accidentally getting a second version and a third version and a fourth version of every file! I use external USB drives for all my files so there was no way I should be down to 1GB on the internal drive. I found this site after experiencing the same problem and just AFTER coming across the same solution! My drive is 500GB but the available space had dropped low as 1GB (so of course I had to act). I’m not ruling out Synkron completely, and I hope that its developers decide to fix this cache issue at some point.Īhhh, dang. If you’re using Synkron as well, and you’ve noticed your free space shrinking inexplicably, you may want to give Disk Inventory X a try, and to consider whether another utility to sync your files may be a better option. Look, Synkron, you may have a nice, shiny icon, and you may be able to put a nice GUI on rsync or subversion (not sure which you’re built on), but I’m sorry, when you can’t clean up after yourself or at least take up less space on my drive, you’re no good to me - into the Trash you go.
It was eating up 30.6GB of my space, without me even realizing it… What do you think was the biggest culprit on my MBP’s hard drive? The Synkron cache.
#Synkron folder under users download
I decided to download Disk Inventory X, a drive space analysis tool based on WinDirStat, which I’d already used on a couple of Windows machines. It just didn’t make sense after all, I’d been able to do it just a couple of months ago, before I filled up my drive with photos from Austria and Romania. I’ve also been cleaning up my drive, and something drove me bonkers: I couldn’t figure out why, in spite of my best efforts to clean up the drive, I couldn’t get 100GB free or more on my MBP (total HD size is 250GB). I’ve been using Synkron lately to keep several directories synced up across a couple of external drives - a backup of sorts, just in case one of the drives decides to kick the bucket.
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