After almost a year of daily use I have kept my total data under 400GB. Yes, some of this was apps I no longer needed, movies I had watched and so on. When I upgraded to BS I did this, I had not done this with Catalina. This is akin to emptying your filing cabinet and selectively reviewing and placing it's contents into a new cabinet minus all the "dross". That means erasing your HD prior to installation of the new macOS then importing all of your user data (you need) from the clone. Of course it helps if your secretary is not filing stuff you don't need when you're not looking.īy far the best method I have found is to keep a clone of my HD and perform a "clean instal" every major macOS upgrade or two. You can let it build up then do a cull or take care not to let it build up in the first place. It takes time and housekeeping to reduce the clutter and a computer hd is no different. If you were to put all of the notes, documents, reminders, stickies, photos and drafts for every topic that came across your desk into Alphabetic folders for each topic you would get a host of duplications and a cabinet full of data you will never need. The HD of a computer it a lot like a filing cabinet. So, DD can show you what is on the drive and nothing will be "other." I didn't show it but the other big hitters in my space are pictures for 109.5GB and documents for 46.3GB. You can see the full path in the top line of the image (I blocked out my username). In the interest of space, I won't show all of the other displays, but eventually I got drilled down to "Application support," which then let me see that 210.1 GB was consumed by MobileSync, which is where the backups of my iPad and iPhone are stored. When I click on the "Users" on the list, Daisy Disk shows the details. Not surprisingly, most of the space is in the User area. Here is a screenshot of the top window of DD for that same drive I showed above: Now, when you run Daisy Disk every file type gets parsed out and attributes are read to make it more clear what is taking up the space, so there is no "other" category. So, your statement, "I am still surprised that macOS takes that much space?" is not appropriate. It is just other stuff of all kinds that doesn't fit into any of the other categories. But it's NOT system, either, as that is an identified category. So, other is NOT system, NOT photos, NOT apps, NOT documents, NOT Mail, NOT Music, NOT Music creation and NOT iOS backups. Those are just files that do not fit into the other categories that that screen uses. In fact, very little of it is actually system files. It is entirely your decision and nobody can really make it for you.įinally, "other" is not all system files. It depends on how far back the TM backups go and how important those old versions may be. Most of us either start over when we get the first warning or get a new drive and put away the "full" one. However, it can only do so much before it reaches a point where it simply cannot make enough space available for the new files and maintain integrity, at which time it errors out. When it needs space, it will shorten the chain by juggling the links to make more space available. Basically it will try to keep an intact link chain for every file in the original backup as long as it can. The TM drive should take care of itself, although eventually there may be a backup too large for TM to handle. It's kind of intuitive once the "daisy" is on the screen, you just click on a category and it shows the details of that area. And if it does do it, then disk clean apps should have been part of the OS itself, not an extra purchase.Ĭlick to expand.With Daisy Disk you can drill down to see what's in the big hitters. Why would it let caches and junk of uninstalled apps lie around and eat space. Should I bite the bullet and buy it? Is it going to solve my problem?īy the way: I am disappointed at MacOS. Not sure if these reviews are biased or are paid advertisements. It seems that CleanMyMac is THE highly recommended. I tried some of the free ones and they removed some paltry amount of space. I researched more and found dozens of programs listed for this task. Then, based on recommendation from the internet,I used OnyX which reclaimed some space, but not too much. I am quite good with Unix so I can do it if I knew what to clean and where to look. I tried to delete some manually, but it's too much work. I researched the net and find that MacOS stores large amount of cache, uninstalled app file, app support file, language files and other stuff. That seems excessive for OS and other stuff. This Other is taking 700 GB while the actual user data is is only 100 GB. iMac built-in storage data tells me there is a category called "other" as being huge. One of my imac is taking up huge amount of space even though the user space is quite low.
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