Jetbrains PyCharm consumes extremely amount of hard drive space > 1TB on Mac OS X

Mar 18, 2024

just remove that file - replace <USER_NAME> with your username:

/System/Volumes/Data/Users/<USER_NAME>/Library/Caches/JetBrains/PyCharm2022.3/python_packages/packages_v2.json

regullary occuring on Mac OS X Ventura 13.4.1 (22F82)

Pycharm version PyCharm 2022.3 (Professional Edition)