So, braintrust, how do I make iMazing stop stealing 194GB of drive space? I am thisclose to just getting rid of iMazing even though it's otherwise a great product. Look in Activity Monitor, don't see anything related to iMazing running. Stop that, repeat the delete, repeat Daisy Disk.

Maybe it's because iMazing mini is running in the top bar. Run Daisy Disk and WTH? They both have reappeared in ~/Library/Application Support/iMazing/Versions! Getting more aggressive now, use Finder to locate the Versions folders, drag both to the trash and empty the trash. Enter iMazing, turn off archiving on both devices. Daisy Disk reports that iMazing was taking up 194GB, this time in a subfolder named 'Versions' in ~/Library/Application Support/iMazing.Īh, that must be the 'archiving' location. Oops, Get info on the drive says exactly the same. So let's see how much space I've recovered. Delete the prior backups through iMazing, get back all happy-happy results. So I go to iMazing preferences and set the default backup location to my external drive and do new backups on both the iPhone and iPad. Ah, that sort of makes sense in that I have an iPhone with 143GB used and an iPad with 110GB used and I've backed them up using iMazing. Investigating it showed that the space was in ~/Library/Application Support/iMazing/Backups. Daisy Disk informed me that iMazing was taking up just under 200GB of the drive, about 194GB. I've been trying to cull what I can and move what I can off the internal to a external drive. The free space on my internal SSD had declined a bit ago.

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