System occupies HUGE space on disk

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System occupies HUGE space on disk

I have a MacBook Pro 15 inches 2018 with Mojave OS and a2Tb disk. The disk is permanently almost full, but my documents occupy 650 Gb, whereas the System occupies 1.12Tb !

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Oct 3, 2021 2:02 PM

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Answer 1

caedmon65

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Oct 3, 2021 2:13 PM in response to jacques187

This is a link to another discussion where they were having the same problem. It is a few years old, but some of the steps should still work. I hope something on here works for you.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7683120

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jacques187 Author

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Oct 3, 2021 2:31 PM in response to caedmon65

Thanks for the tip. I read the thread and ran some of the tricks there, which savec so me Gb of space, but it is far from explaining the 1.1Tb used by my System.

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