Docker via Local by Flywheel eating up 116GB of space

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Hello,

I have zero storage left on my MacBook, and after some digging, I noticed that Docker (only used because of Local by Flywheel) is using 116 GB of storage! This is almost half of my Macs’ entire storage… I now cannot create new sites, install updates or anything of the sort.

I have removed other Applications, caches, old files etc. but ultimately I must reduce Dockers’ ridiculous consumption.

Please can somebody help reduce this and explain the issue!?

Thanks in advance

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Hello @elliottmangham!

Sorry to hear about your issue. A couple of possible common causes of arriving at a large storage point are

  • A Large database
  • A Large number of sites

The limit of the virtual machine’s disk size is 120GB. Due to the way VirtualBox disks work, they will not shrink after a certain size.

Something you can try if you’re able to export site’s in Local is to export all of your sites and then remove Local’s VM in VirtualBox, re-open Local, and then re-import your sites.