Mac Air Document Storage space vs documents space

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sbolles4 Author

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Mac Air Document Storage space vs documents space

My Mac Air document storage says I have 11G taken but I only have 1G of documents. How can I find the "extra" 10G?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 23, 2020 12:51 PM

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neuroanatomist

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Nov 23, 2020 1:47 PM in response to sbolles4

No way to map them, no. But, check out:

What is “Other” storage on a Mac, and how can I clean it out?

Links in the Tip for Disk Inventory X or OmniDiskSweeper, they’ll allow you to look at your drive contents by size, that’s an efficient way to free up space.

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sbolles4 Author

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Nov 23, 2020 2:13 PM in response to neuroanatomist

Thank you very much! I've given dirty looks at Other for a week now and done a number of searches, but did not come up with this or any other article that gave a glimmer of hope for identifying or cleaning it up. I'm on my way to Big Sur!

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Nov 23, 2020 1:24 PM in response to sbolles4

The categories in About this Mac > Storage aren’t very reliable. For example, RAW-format pictures from my cameras show up as Documents.

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sbolles4 Author

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Nov 23, 2020 1:33 PM in response to neuroanatomist

Do you know of any way to map from source to the "documents" amount? I'm trying to get my storage down to an acceptable amount in order to install Big Sur.

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Nov 23, 2020 2:17 PM in response to sbolles4

Glad that helped! Enjoy macOS 11.

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