I need to clear up space on my Mac. In the Reduce Clutter menu, my "other" category is over 50GB, which is almost half of the 120 GB total storage I have. How do I see and manage what is in the "other" category?

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I need to clear up space on my Mac. In the Reduce Clutter menu, my "other" category is over 50GB, which is almost half of the 120 GB total storage I have. How do I see and manage what is in the "other" category?

Is there a way to see what's in the "Other" category to clean up / delete what's not necessary. It's taking up nearly 50% of my hard drive space.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Sep 11, 2021 11:53 AM

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sberman

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Sep 11, 2021 3:33 PM in response to roschelle

See the article linked above, as well as specific information about "Other" here.

See used and available storage space on your Mac - Apple Support

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roschelle Author

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Sep 11, 2021 3:44 PM in response to sberman

Thanks for that article, that helps explain it. Though I find this extremely frustrating that Apple is going to take up 50% of my hard drive and there’s nothing I can do about it. Not sure why they even make hard drives of this size with as much space as it taken up with system files.

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I need to clear up space on my Mac. In the Reduce Clutter menu, my "other" category is over 50GB, which is almost half of the 120 GB total storage I have. How do I see and manage what is in the "other" category?

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