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Home folder reads 31.15 GB larger than sum of individual subfolders
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Ham Sandwich
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Jan 12, 2018, 06:23 PM
 
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Jan 12, 2018, 11:33 PM
 
I assume your Library folder is hidden. Open Terminal:

chflags nohidden ~/Library

That should do the trick.

If Library was already visible, there's another hidden file or folder in your user folder. OmniDiskSweeper will help you find it.
     
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