Thank you for helping me to reach this milestone 🙏 I’m also a MacOS instructor and in the next few days I am releasing a brand new course which covers all the features of new MacOS Monterey. As a thank you I would like to give you a coupon to enrol there for FREE! If you are interested write me an email 📧 to appleonlineacademy@gmail.com and I will send you the code once it’s released 😉
How I usualy do it is I go to library (to get to library click go while in finder, press option on your keyboard, library should show up, click it, then you should be in library), press command and F, set left dropdown to "File size" the next to "is greater than" put the last one to the type of storage unit you want to look for, (ie Gigabytes, megabytes, etc) the space between the last two to the number of the measurement units you want to look for, then press enter. (I would recommend doing a back up before deleting anything)
Does moving garageband files and things like that to the SD card in the side of my 2013 MacBook Pro instead of having it on the Mac help free up storage or will that still take up storage?
It will surely save you some space 💻 I’m just not sure how garage band will work with these files. But for example Final Cut library can be opened from external storage, so I guess it will work the same way 👍
I’m happy you like the video 👍 the wallpaper is actually one of the MacOS standard ones. It’s called The Lake and you will find it in system preferences under Desktop & Screen Saver menu. I believe these animated backgrounds were added after Big Sur update 👨🏼💻
Thank you so much for the help. My "other" files consisted of 82G of my storage and I only have 128G. I was able to remove 10 GB of other but have so much more to find in other. I'll check out more videos.
It’s great to hear that it helped you. There are few other videos on the channel related to that topic it might be worth watching as well 🤷♂️👍 Try this: ruclips.net/video/5d-UH5byLpA/видео.html And this: ruclips.net/video/u8qd1g4WB9Y/видео.html Hopefully these videos will help you free up some more storage 👨🏼💻
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial thank you!!! I will absolutely watch. You helped me wayyyyyy more than the Apple help desk. I’ll watch those and respond on them. Btw! I made a mistake on my original comment… it freed up 20 G of space not 10! Incredible! It showed more when I shut down and rebooted
I you have already went through these system files, cashes and temporary files. I guess it will be something in your documents what apple can't recognise as documents. It is sometimes showing me over 100Gb of ,,other" because of my Final Cut projects, so these not processed videos can be categorised as other. It's hard to say what it could be in your case. Maybe some large projects from whatever app you are using. But try one more thing! Once you click about my Mac and you are on the storage tab. Click on the MANAGE button and wait a bit longer. It sometimes help to get the bars straight and moves some of the unidentified files under different category, so you might find out that the ,,other" bar is actually smaller that 57 Gb. I am very curious if it will help, let me know about it 🧐
I am trying to figure out what the 38gb under "other" is on my MacBook Air. It will not allow me to see the contents there. Plus I only have 251gb of storage on this machine, so I need as much as possible.
I understand. It the same issue over and over with macOS. The files are not categorised properly and ending up in ,,other”! I believe some of them can be discovered thanks to this video or you can watch the previous one I made about cleaning up other storage. Hopefully it will help you save some space 💻
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial Thank you. I do have an appointment on Sunday at the Genius Bar to see if they can help me but will check out your other video too.
how do I delete corrupted backup files? I tried to do a backup and it said "not enough storage on Mac" and now the "other" storage is taking 100GB of my Mac!
The backup is usually not saved on the main hard drive and it is automatically replaced with a new backup or deleted when running out of space. The change of other storage size is influenced by the categorising files, it doesn’t need to be the backup at all.
@@Jaroma_Official it means the storage bar is not correct it is still evaluating files and splitting them into different categories. I would recommend you to watch this video: ruclips.net/video/u8qd1g4WB9Y/видео.html
I have Macbook 2012 and as I was following the instructions 4:30 minutes into the video, I noticed that I don't have the + next to save button. I only have 125GB storage space and other files take up 85 GB. I have no access to choose what I have in there and what to keep nor what to save.
You have to be in search window in order to see the + button. So open up standard Finder window and press command + F. That will redirect you to the search and you will surely have the plus button there.
Thank you for your positive comment 🙏 I’m happy it helped. I have also another videos about the same topic, maybe it will help as well 👨🏼💻 ruclips.net/video/u8qd1g4WB9Y/видео.html
Hi, thanks for the video about the "Other" issue! Is it safe to delete all the files in the "Attachments" folder that are under Library > Application Support > Main Profile...?
I don't see this folder on my Mac 🤔 so it means it's probably connected to some app you are using, not to the system itself so I believe you can delete that. Just to make sure everything will be fine, you can copy all the files somewhere else, delete it in the library and if everything works well, that feel free to get rid of it. Let me know how I went 👍🏻
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial Thanks for responding so quickly. I found this type of "Attachments" folder are under some other folders as well, and they contain a couple of GB easily (at least in my Mac). They usually under "Main Profile" > "Files" > "SO" > "1" > "Attachment". I copied them and deleted them now, so far so good. I'll let you know if I ran into any trouble. Fingers crossed!
@@kwang1107 It’s good that you found it. I also have few apps which are storing files I don’t need and I have to be regularly deleting them. Good you can text me anytime! 👨🏼💻
I’m happy it helped you. If you visit apple online academy channel you will find there updated version of this video which can help you clean up your storage even more 👍
I downloaded big sur on my macbook 2017 but cancelled it bc it's taking too much space. I deleted it but some of its files I guess were still stored in 'others'. I really dont know how to get rid of it.
Yes it is true that Big Sur requires a little bit more space than previous OS. It is around 20 GB of space. The Mac OS installer is not stored in downloads but in the applications folder, try to have a look there if you want to delete it. But I would still recommend you to clean some space on your Mac and install Big Sur because it brought a lot of improvements this year.
Totally fine, no worries. You might experience a little bit of slower loading of some apps, maybe some of your settings will not be saved, but in general there is no problem if you delete it all. Maybe you were storing so many files about apps you don’t even use anymore and by deleting the caches you saved a lot of space. 👍
Sometimes games require more than it’s written in the description. I am afraid you might need to clean up more storage at least for the installation which is sometimes double than the size of the game afterwards.
Bruh I'm having more than 20 gb of other files and i only downloaded 2.2gb of application thats all no docs what should i do even on system reset it only goes down to 17.7gb
Over 60gb is being taken by “other” I don’t have any projects or anything, and I only have 3 apps downloaded. I have no idea what’s causing this, I’ve tried so many things but nothing will clear it.
It's hard to say what is taking up the storage. In your case it will most likely be somewhere in the documents. You can watch my other video about this topic, I show there different places and techniques so you might find it there: ruclips.net/video/5d-UH5byLpA/видео.html But first of all open the info ,,About my Mac" and wait for a long time. Even press the manage button on the storage tab to see recommendations and then return back to the graph. It might show different numbers and you might find out that you actually don't have any ,,other" storage.. Let me know if it helped ;)
I don’t think that downloading speed should be connected with an update. But anyway after every update you should give it a little bit of time to settle everything down and it will surely get better soon 👍 But if you will have any problems let me know 👨🏼💻
Yes ,,other" is a problem with the small disk. The Big Sur installation surely fits under other so you can save 12GB by either deleting it or updating to it. For the update itself you don't need to do anything. Just follow the instructions after you click on it. You will find video about it on this channel as well. None of your content will be lost or replaced during that. But if you really want to wipe the disk. I would not bother about any partition. I am sure you have in your computer so many things you will never need as everybody has. So the best ways is to just copy important files on the external drive and wipe the computer disk entirely. You will start clean and after the installation is finished, you can easily transfer your data back from the external drive.
Hello James, A clean installation of macOS 11 takes up to 15-20 GB. In your case it’s showing more, but I believe it has something to do with certain applications that falsely get labeled as core applications and thus categorized under the systems folder. It doesn’t mean that the system really takes this much. 💻
@@jasminebriannatabanao4825 These might actually be apps you are using and you need. I understand your concern by seeing this large space taken by system. Same story is seeing 100gb of other storage. It’s not really other or system, apple just have a mess in this files categorising. Even your own personal documents can sometimes be sorted wrongly and they count as other files instead of just documents. What I regularly do is to reinstall the system. Currently the best you should do is to wait for new macOS release which will come in few months and it will remove the old system, so it should help being new and fresh.
Well 51 GB is honestly not as much, system itself is around 20 GB.. so you have somewhere 30 GB. Check this video it might help: m.ruclips.net/video/u8qd1g4WB9Y/видео.html
this is a good video but it didnt do anything to the other bar, still takes up half my space. i really just hate computers and wish they didnt exist. books work people. books work better
Well it the ,,other” space is showing so large, it’s usually not really true. There are just files which are not categorised yet, you have to give it more time and rather review your personal large files. You can watch my previous video about that (ruclips.net/video/5d-UH5byLpA/видео.html) it is more generally described there, more about cleaning the space than just finding some small hidden files.
I was the 1000 Sub! thanks for the Video
Thank you for helping me to reach this milestone 🙏 I’m also a MacOS instructor and in the next few days I am releasing a brand new course which covers all the features of new MacOS Monterey. As a thank you I would like to give you a coupon to enrol there for FREE! If you are interested write me an email 📧 to appleonlineacademy@gmail.com and I will send you the code once it’s released 😉
Finally really helpful, not 'CleanMyMac" only video. Thank you :)
Thank you for your positive comment 🙏 you don’t need CleanMyMac, you can do everything yourself on a Mac 💻
How I usualy do it is I go to library (to get to library click go
while in finder, press option on your keyboard, library should show up,
click it, then you should be in library), press command and F, set left
dropdown to "File size" the next to "is greater than" put the last one
to the type of storage unit you want to look for, (ie Gigabytes,
megabytes, etc) the space between the last two to the number of the
measurement units you want to look for, then press enter. (I would
recommend doing a back up before deleting anything)
this is the only one that actually has useful instructions. Thanks, man!
Thank you for your positive comment, I happy to help!
thanks very much for the help! Didn't have to download anything, straight trial and error. You're the best!
Thank you for your time to share a comment, I am glad you find the video useful 👍🏻 👨💻
worth watching! thank you for your time and effort to help others 😊
I’m glad you find my video useful and appreciate your positive feedback 😊👍
I have 350 gig of other after using FCP , went through the video , checked everything , but no help .. any other tips?
Does moving garageband files and things like that to the SD card in the side of my 2013 MacBook Pro instead of having it on the Mac help free up storage or will that still take up storage?
It will surely save you some space 💻 I’m just not sure how garage band will work with these files. But for example Final Cut library can be opened from external storage, so I guess it will work the same way 👍
I love your accent and I enjoy your videos about to binge watch :)
I am glad you enjoy my videos. Thank you for your positive comment 🙏
lol for me i didnt realize i record my screen for 5hrs hahahaha thanks to this video!
Haha, it happened to me once as well :) I’m happy you like the video 💻
Thank you so much for sharing this. It helped a lot! Your videos are amazing
You are welcome and I am glad it was helpful 👨💻 Thank you for your positive comment.
Yo thanks for the video. Whats your screen background its awesome!! share it please
I’m happy you like the video 👍 the wallpaper is actually one of the MacOS standard ones. It’s called The Lake and you will find it in system preferences under Desktop & Screen Saver menu. I believe these animated backgrounds were added after Big Sur update 👨🏼💻
Thank you so much for helping me to save storage for my MacBook. :)
I’m happy to hear that my video helped you save some space 👍💻
thank you all the websites are too confusing with this your video really helped
I’m really happy to hear that it helped you! Yes this topic can be really confusing
Thank you. 7.5 saved for me. Will check out your other videos!
Great to hear that! I hope you will find there some more useful tips 👨🏼💻🙏
Thank you so much for the help. My "other" files consisted of 82G of my storage and I only have 128G. I was able to remove 10 GB of other but have so much more to find in other. I'll check out more videos.
It’s great to hear that it helped you. There are few other videos on the channel related to that topic it might be worth watching as well 🤷♂️👍
Try this: ruclips.net/video/5d-UH5byLpA/видео.html
And this: ruclips.net/video/u8qd1g4WB9Y/видео.html
Hopefully these videos will help you free up some more storage 👨🏼💻
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial thank you!!! I will absolutely watch. You helped me wayyyyyy more than the Apple help desk. I’ll watch those and respond on them.
Btw! I made a mistake on my original comment… it freed up 20 G of space not 10! Incredible! It showed more when I shut down and rebooted
@@coralna Thank you very much for your positive comment 🙏
It usually helps to restart the computer 👍 I’m really happy you like my videos 💻
Worthy video sir
I am glad you like it 👍
What if your "other" category is 57GB? I went through the ones you showed, but still don't see much i can delete!
I you have already went through these system files, cashes and temporary files. I guess it will be something in your documents what apple can't recognise as documents. It is sometimes showing me over 100Gb of ,,other" because of my Final Cut projects, so these not processed videos can be categorised as other. It's hard to say what it could be in your case. Maybe some large projects from whatever app you are using.
But try one more thing! Once you click about my Mac and you are on the storage tab. Click on the MANAGE button and wait a bit longer. It sometimes help to get the bars straight and moves some of the unidentified files under different category, so you might find out that the ,,other" bar is actually smaller that 57 Gb. I am very curious if it will help, let me know about it 🧐
Did you find a solution? I have the same problem...
I am trying to figure out what the 38gb under "other" is on my MacBook Air. It will not allow me to see the contents there. Plus I only have 251gb of storage on this machine, so I need as much as possible.
I understand. It the same issue over and over with macOS. The files are not categorised properly and ending up in ,,other”! I believe some of them can be discovered thanks to this video or you can watch the previous one I made about cleaning up other storage. Hopefully it will help you save some space 💻
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial Thank you. I do have an appointment on Sunday at the Genius Bar to see if they can help me but will check out your other video too.
its taking half. yes it is
underrated channel wow
Thank you so much! :)
how do I delete corrupted backup files? I tried to do a backup and it said "not enough storage on Mac" and now the "other" storage is taking 100GB of my Mac!
The backup is usually not saved on the main hard drive and it is automatically replaced with a new backup or deleted when running out of space. The change of other storage size is influenced by the categorising files, it doesn’t need to be the backup at all.
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial ok so the categorizing files are easily removable?
@@Jaroma_Official it means the storage bar is not correct it is still evaluating files and splitting them into different categories. I would recommend you to watch this video: ruclips.net/video/u8qd1g4WB9Y/видео.html
just started watching! hope this works man!
I believe that by now you have already finished watching the video 👨🏼💻 did it help you save some space?
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial Yes! thanks bro!
@@ishhveerubhi awesome 👏 happy to hear that!
I have Macbook 2012 and as I was following the instructions 4:30 minutes into the video, I noticed that I don't have the + next to save button. I only have 125GB storage space and other files take up 85 GB. I have no access to choose what I have in there and what to keep nor what to save.
You have to be in search window in order to see the + button. So open up standard Finder window and press command + F. That will redirect you to the search and you will surely have the plus button there.
Wow! I freed up 21 GB. I still have 51 GB in other that I can't find but I'm going to keep looking. Thanks so much!
Thank you for your positive comment 🙏 I’m happy it helped. I have also another videos about the same topic, maybe it will help as well 👨🏼💻
ruclips.net/video/u8qd1g4WB9Y/видео.html
Hi, thanks for the video about the "Other" issue! Is it safe to delete all the files in the "Attachments" folder that are under Library > Application Support > Main Profile...?
I don't see this folder on my Mac 🤔 so it means it's probably connected to some app you are using, not to the system itself so I believe you can delete that. Just to make sure everything will be fine, you can copy all the files somewhere else, delete it in the library and if everything works well, that feel free to get rid of it. Let me know how I went 👍🏻
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial Thanks for responding so quickly. I found this type of "Attachments" folder are under some other folders as well, and they contain a couple of GB easily (at least in my Mac). They usually under "Main Profile" > "Files" > "SO" > "1" > "Attachment". I copied them and deleted them now, so far so good. I'll let you know if I ran into any trouble. Fingers crossed!
@@kwang1107 It’s good that you found it. I also have few apps which are storing files I don’t need and I have to be regularly deleting them. Good you can text me anytime! 👨🏼💻
Your video helped a lot
I’m happy it helped you. If you visit apple online academy channel you will find there updated version of this video which can help you clean up your storage even more 👍
I downloaded big sur on my macbook 2017 but cancelled it bc it's taking too much space. I deleted it but some of its files I guess were still stored in 'others'. I really dont know how to get rid of it.
Yes it is true that Big Sur requires a little bit more space than previous OS. It is around 20 GB of space. The Mac OS installer is not stored in downloads but in the applications folder, try to have a look there if you want to delete it.
But I would still recommend you to clean some space on your Mac and install Big Sur because it brought a lot of improvements this year.
bro... i deleted all the caches files 😭 is that fine?
Totally fine, no worries. You might experience a little bit of slower loading of some apps, maybe some of your settings will not be saved, but in general there is no problem if you delete it all. Maybe you were storing so many files about apps you don’t even use anymore and by deleting the caches you saved a lot of space. 👍
That's a wonderful share, thanks so much
You are very welcome 🙏 I’m happy it helped 👨🏼💻
I’m trying to download a game and it’s saying I don’t have enough storage even tho it’s not full so I can’t play anything my MB is 43.5
Sometimes games require more than it’s written in the description. I am afraid you might need to clean up more storage at least for the installation which is sometimes double than the size of the game afterwards.
Thank you so much! Helped me clean 30 GB of junk on my 250gb Mac!
That’s a lot! I’m happy it helped 👍
Thank you.
I am glad you find this video useful 👍
deleting the pdf, what if i need the pdf but its too much to sort?
Well if you really need the space I would just put the files on external storage where it will be always accessible
Bruh I'm having more than 20 gb of other files and i only downloaded 2.2gb of application thats all no docs what should i do even on system reset it only goes down to 17.7gb
You can never get rid of ,,other" completely. There is always something. But having only 17GB of other is pretty good I would say.
it saves me 20Gig. thank you so much.
Great to hear that, every GB of space is worth it 👍
thank you
useful instructions
I’m happy you find it useful 👍
Clean my Mac is good application
Clean my Mac is all right, but it doesn't do much to your computer.
thank you, you help a lot
I am glad to hear that!
Thanksss
Over 60gb is being taken by “other” I don’t have any projects or anything, and I only have 3 apps downloaded. I have no idea what’s causing this, I’ve tried so many things but nothing will clear it.
It's hard to say what is taking up the storage. In your case it will most likely be somewhere in the documents. You can watch my other video about this topic, I show there different places and techniques so you might find it there: ruclips.net/video/5d-UH5byLpA/видео.html
But first of all open the info ,,About my Mac" and wait for a long time. Even press the manage button on the storage tab to see recommendations and then return back to the graph. It might show different numbers and you might find out that you actually don't have any ,,other" storage.. Let me know if it helped ;)
i cant delete my zips, everytime i drag it to the bin it doesnt go in it??
And what happens if you use the shortcut Command + Delete?
Yeah I been searching for some time. Other is talking up almost 40 GB
Hopefully this video will help you save some space! 💻
You saved me 25 GB!
That’s amazing I’m happy it helped! 💻
That’s amazing, I’m happy it helped! 💻
After updating big sur downloading speed in browser is very slow .
I don’t think that downloading speed should be connected with an update. But anyway after every update you should give it a little bit of time to settle everything down and it will surely get better soon 👍 But if you will have any problems let me know 👨🏼💻
Saved 0.01 GB for me 😞 - after watching both videos
Before: -
Apps 18.22
Photos 12.88
Music Creation 2.36
Messages / other
Yes ,,other" is a problem with the small disk. The Big Sur installation surely fits under other so you can save 12GB by either deleting it or updating to it. For the update itself you don't need to do anything. Just follow the instructions after you click on it. You will find video about it on this channel as well. None of your content will be lost or replaced during that.
But if you really want to wipe the disk. I would not bother about any partition. I am sure you have in your computer so many things you will never need as everybody has. So the best ways is to just copy important files on the external drive and wipe the computer disk entirely. You will start clean and after the installation is finished, you can easily transfer your data back from the external drive.
Hello why my system takes a lot of storage? Like 27gb please someone explain it to me
Hello James, A clean installation of macOS 11 takes up to 15-20 GB. In your case it’s showing more, but I believe it has something to do with certain applications that falsely get labeled as core applications and thus categorized under the systems folder. It doesn’t mean that the system really takes this much. 💻
Apple Online Academy what will I do please hell
@@jasminebriannatabanao4825 These might actually be apps you are using and you need. I understand your concern by seeing this large space taken by system. Same story is seeing 100gb of other storage. It’s not really other or system, apple just have a mess in this files categorising. Even your own personal documents can sometimes be sorted wrongly and they count as other files instead of just documents. What I regularly do is to reinstall the system. Currently the best you should do is to wait for new macOS release which will come in few months and it will remove the old system, so it should help being new and fresh.
Apple Online Academy okay I will wait for the uldate and now im restating my macbook and updating should I stop it?
Apple Online Academy i alresdy update and I cannot stop it huhu goodluck to me
This is so stupid. you content is great but nothing works for me. i have deleted everything i own on this computer and it still has 51gb left in it.
Well 51 GB is honestly not as much, system itself is around 20 GB.. so you have somewhere 30 GB. Check this video it might help: m.ruclips.net/video/u8qd1g4WB9Y/видео.html
Help me!!!
What can I help you with? 💻
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial can you teamviewr delete file in other. My mac is air 2017
@@trannhungoc7722 I think you just need to follow the video step by step, you can slow it down to catch up and you will surely manage 👏
hi have a energy star pdf can I delete it
It is not connected to a system so there is no problem of deleting it
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial just found out that I can't delete it
@@dhanushvasarla1513 Maybe the file is locked. From the File menu, select Get Info and unlock it there.
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial ok will try and I will let you know
@@dhanushvasarla1513 good 👍 .. there are few other things we can try if it doesn’t work
My other storage is taking 195 GB of 256 GB storage.
If you carefully watch the video you will find out it’s not actually true 👨🏼💻
this is a good video but it didnt do anything to the other bar, still takes up half my space. i really just hate computers and wish they didnt exist. books work people. books work better
Well it the ,,other” space is showing so large, it’s usually not really true. There are just files which are not categorised yet, you have to give it more time and rather review your personal large files. You can watch my previous video about that (ruclips.net/video/5d-UH5byLpA/видео.html) it is more generally described there, more about cleaning the space than just finding some small hidden files.
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial awesome thank you i'll check it out tomorrow for sure.
@@TheFeelinfine Great let me know if it helped 👍