I went to about this mac and checked storage.

Why is mac system storage so high. My system storage is taking up 80 gigs of space for some reason. 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.

Determining if you have a large amount of system disk usage. Here’s how to clear them up: How to clear system data storage on mac.

* browser caches and temporary files. It says that the system takes up 112 gb of space on my internal ssd. Your post was very useful.

1) if was really the time machine snapshots the. So you need delete some big other data to free up the system storage on the computer. Click on the apple logo in the upper left corner of the screen.

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

I don't think it's normal for it to take so much space. If large delete everything in that folder, empty the. The largest files will appear on the top of your list — move the ones you don’t need to the trash.