HOW TO CLEAN MY MAC SYSTEM STORAGE MANUAL
HOW TO CLEAN MY MAC SYSTEM STORAGE UPGRADE

There are at least two previous posts regarding the same 'issue' (if in fact it is one!), but I'm not sure anyone has got to the bottom of it yet. The agent suggested reinstalling macOS Sierra, which I did, but it didn't solve the problem. Unfortunately Apple Support was not very helpful when I contacted them this afternoon. And I have no idea why it reports storage content accurately on my wife's Mac but not mine. I would like to be a huge fan of Optimized Storage, but this set-up of counting iTunes media as 'system files' seems problematic. And I still don't have a separate iTunes entry. When I move things back into iTunes, they count again toward the System storage amount. (The Documents content jumped up dramatically because I copied my iTunes Library to the Desktop.) Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to establish the separate entry for iTunes in this window. Now the System files are down around 8 GB. After I did that, my Storage report looked like this: As an experiment, I copied then deleted my entire iTunes Library from within iTunes. I could reach the iTunes folder through Documents on the left side, but the contents of the folder were grayed out. I also noticed that, unlike on my wife's MacBook Pro, I had no individual listing for iTunes. In a nutshell: When I go to 'About This Mac > Storage' the System files were taking up a whopping 90+ GB of my hard drive.

Oh, and in the meantime, you can grab an SD card or low-profile flash drive and just leave it plugged into your laptop for extra onboard storage-some are so small that you'll hardly notice they're there.I've encountered a problem on my brand new MacBook, but haven't been able to find a solution after working on it for most of today. It'll cost more up front, but you'll save money in the long run.

HOW TO CLEAN MY MAC SYSTEM STORAGE UPGRADE

If your laptop storage isn't upgradeable, you'll need to make sure your next laptop upgrade includes all the storage you think you'll need down the line. You may need to look up what kind of M.2 drive your laptop requires, but once you do, you can swap it in yourself with a small screwdriver kit. If your laptop's storage is upgradeable, you can easily buy a bigger drive online-either a 2.5-inch SSD or an M.2 drive, whichever your laptop supports. So once you start encountering that “Disk full” warning, know that you'll probably want a bigger drive in the somewhat near future. You can repeat this process every few months, but eventually, it's going to become tiresome-or you're going to run out of stuff you're willing to delete. Temporary files will return, your cloud storage will fill up, and you'll keep collecting music, movies, and other files. Ultimately, most of these solutions are temporary. If you choose the external drive option, just remember that you should also back up those files to the cloud if they're truly important to you-external drives can and will fail just like regular hard drives, and if that's your only copy of the data, you still need it backed up somewhere. Just remember that if you use a service like Dropbox, it may sync those files to your computer automatically, so you'll have to go into the program's settings and unselect those files so they're stored in the cloud only.

HOW TO CLEAN MY MAC SYSTEM STORAGE MANUAL

Windows can automatically move unused files to OneDrive using the aforementioned Storage Sense feature, but again, I prefer to have manual control. You don't need to waste precious storage on your laptop keeping these kinds of things around-put them on an external drive or upload them to a cloud storage service like Dropbox or OneDrive. For example, I have gigabytes of work and tax documents that I rarely need to access but want to keep for a few years, and my wife has some projects from her grad school days she wants access to if she needs them. If you find files you aren't ready to get rid of yet, you might be able to move them somewhere else for safe keeping. Offload Files to External or Cloud Storage

How to clean my mac system storage