The “other” storage of your mac might be high because it has high accumulation of:

Why is mac system storage so high. The quick solution is to restart your computer in safe mode. 1) if was really the time machine snapshots the. I went to about this mac and checked storage.

How to clear system data storage on mac. Your post was very useful. My system storage is taking up 80 gigs of space for some reason.

Here are some tips to remove the other data. So you need delete some big other data to free up the system storage on the computer. To get an idea of the space being used by system or macos files, take the following steps:

But, i have some questions about the support article that you mentioned: Although, we don't have full control over the system data storage, there are a few things we can do to reduce its size. Click command i to see the size.

Mac users often freak out when they look at the storage settings in about this mac and find that system storage takes up way more space than they think it should. Go to finder > downloads. I don't think it's normal for it to take so much space.

* unwanted and unsupported file types. Go to apple > about this mac > storage tab > manage, and you will see the storage management window. My applications and documents are 12 gigs and 10 gigs.