Why is My Mac System Storage More than 100GB?
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- The system storage and so known ,,other" space is a big place of confusion for Mac users. But don’t worry I will explain it all in this video.
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MY GOD! I was about to change my laptop because I was so hopeless, they didn't help me in local apple store or anywhere. I really thank you. It is the most helpful video ever....
OMG, you saved my MacBook. I had like 168GB of system files and no clue why. Turns out, the program I use to edit YT videos keeps the deleted files anyway after I trash them. Thank you so much!
That’s great you have discovered these files! 👍 I’m happy that my video helped you with that.
THIS IS HOW I REALIZE I HAVE 67GB QUICKTIME MOVIE OF MY ENTIRE WORKDAY AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY. Thank you for the help
Great to hear that! I’m happy it helped 👍
This is BY FAR the most useful video that talks about recovering storage space on a mac! Thank you so much!!
This tutorial was most helpful. I had 600GB in System Data. With your guidance, I checked my User Library, and found that I had inadvertently recorded my screen for more than 6hours, and had two huge .mov files in System Recordings. Now deleted, normality restored. A most helpful video.
Thank you very much for your positive feedback 🙏 I’m really happy that it helped you 👍💻
How do u record for more then 6 hours lmao
@@Restless371fr 💀
+1😂
Same thing.
Thank you for step by step instructions. It helped me to free 274 GB of space out of 500. I was so frustrated so far and now so joyous after watching this video and freeing up space. 😊
Amazing! I’m so happy to hear that. That is my motivation to make this videos 👨🏼💻👍 it’s great it helped you save some space 👏
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial thank you so much! I had the same problem and downloaded tons of 'mac cleaners'. I just simply forgot to turn off the screen recording, so there was a 9h video in hidden files lol
I had about 80 GB of system storage. This video helped me remember that I downloaded all sounds for logic pro
Great! I am happy you find out about that and cleared some storage 👍
Lol i did too ahaha them sounds take up space for sure
This video was a savior!!! My computer has had over 300GB of system storage for years... I could never figure out how to solve it until now. This video helped me find huge hidden screen recording files that were taking up 270+ GB! Thank you for your help!
It was mostly stuff from Steam and other apps I don't even have that waisted my storage, Thanks to that, I now have 40GB of storage available, which isn't too bad.
This guy saved me thousands of dollars. I love watching movies and I delete them after watching. For some reason, my iCloud Document was saving my movies by renaming the file, and those files were not showing in my storage cleaners. You saved me hundreds of gigabytes; now I do not need to buy an extra Mac Mini for my work. Thank you and subscribed.
Thank you very much, had 100gb of screen recordings hidden away somewhere!.
Love that this video did not ask me to download a third-party app. Helped solve my problem in a few minutes.
Thank you so much for this. So many place don't say this, and this is one of the big problems with document management on Macs. It's very frustrating and everyone's trying their best to explain it, but it's overly complicated. And I don't understand why they can't make it simpler 🤦🏾♂️
My God, thank you so much... I'm a new macOS user and I just got so frustrated because I trying to minimize the document in my laptop and using external SSD, but my storage keep decreasing and just left around 20GB, trash bin is always empty, and all my big documents are in external storage, so why I run out of storage? you are really a saver... thank you so much.
Shout out to you!!! Thanks so muchhhh, i almost change my 2015 macbook to 2024 macbook because of this. I truly recommend this video to everyone who encounters the same problem! this is the video where you find the concrete solution without asking you to install any external app!
the first video that helped me to solve the problem , was thinking to factory reset but now its no needed THANKS !
I am really happy I saved you some trouble! 👍
Thank you for this video and explanation. I literally had screen recording of 300gb plus hidden in library which I never knew 😭 this saved me lot of work man .... good work
THANK YOU! I was down to less than 1GB of space left on a laptop that I use for nothing but writing and online browsing. It made no sense? Turns out it was Telegram leaving a ton of stuff in a group container. Your instructions helped me clear up 110GB of space!!
This helped me discover that my icloud photos were stored automatically as low resolution on my Mac!!!
Yes that is a very common thing I had to turn off the photos synchronisation as well. I’m happy this video helped 👍👨🏼💻
Thank you very much bro! I couldn't upgrade my mac but with your video I now have more than enough space for upgrade. Merci
Awesome I’m happy my video helped you 🙏 enjoy the newest upgrade now 💻
This video should be appreciated by all means. You saved me 100 GB of space . Thank you so much!!!!
One tip I will give :
Changhe your view options to see the folder size.
thank you so much for this video
Thanks man! You really helped me out. Had 34 gb in system storage and had no idea why it was taking
so much space. Then I followed your guide and found out that icloud photo cache was taking about 18gbs, so I deleted this folder and freed up about 18gbs of storage. P.S I have 128gb macbook air 13 inch early 2015 and it was really helpful for me.
i had more than 300 gb system data, and just managed to free it up because of your video
i have never commented on any video. But bro this seriously helped me a lot. Thanks for this great info
That’s amazing 👍 I am really happy that my video helped you 👏 I appreciate your positive comment 🙏👨🏼💻
Thank you so much! I've been struggle with more than 500gb of system data for so long, searched through websites to solve but couldn't find where it comes from. It was actually all the caches from adobe after effects. It really freed 500gb of my macbook space now. Your video is clear and really helpful!
Same. After Effects (and surprisingly, Keynote) also for me.
at first I was so confused then I started doing the steps and got 100gb back im so happy I watched it latterly worth it
0:33 fallen at first hurdle, mine does not show this
Yo. I feel like I have discovered the secret knowledge of this universe. l couldn’t find an explanation for this stuff ANYWHERE. Thank you so much man
Bro, you are a lifesaver. I had 2 screen recordings over one hour. I cleared 78 GB from them.
My Go doesn’t have library option ☹️
Hold down the option key on your keyboard and it will appear 💻
Thank you! I had been struggling with no storage space for the longest time. This helped! My after effects cache folder was 100GB+ :O
You are amazing , i have been banging my head for almost a month, why i am not able to clean up my mac. I can do that now. thanks. subscribed
Thank you very much for your positive comment and subscribing 🙏 I’m happy it helped and hopefully you will find more useful videos on the channel.
You saved me almost 100 GBs on a Mac mini, thanks!
Clutch this really did help! It turns out my messages ended up saving in this type of folders somehow and it was about 90gbs I was like wtf! I’m a content creator, so I tend to have my computer clean and I dump all my content on a hard drive! So I was confused at first and overwhelmed. Thanks for this video brotha!
Thank you very much for your positive comment, I’m really happy my video helped you clean some files you didn’t need 👍
doesn't help in 2024, every file I delete just added to the System Data. I'm up to 657GB, and both libraries only add ups to 200GB
This is exactly the same on iOS! Disable the auto-lock feature and leave it for like an hour. It'll sort everything out.
Thank you very much!!! M application Folder had 178 GB in it!!!! I dont know how but after deleting it, peace was restored! Must be old Programms i didnt delete properly
Thanks man for perfectly and clearly showing/explaining what to do. This helped a lot!
this is the best video ever, i have a stupid 120gb screen capture in my computer that I am not even noticed...
Thank you so much for your positive comment 🙏 I am happy the video helped you clear some ,,useless" data and you got some extra space back.
I usually never comment on videos, but I must say you helped me SO much!! I had 140GB of cached data from After Effects that I was easily able to delete from within After Effects. Thank you!!!
this is hands down the most useful video on this topic. Thank you! mystery solved.
Thank you so much! I just deleted 75GB of trash from my laptop and I am so relieved
Great! And I believe you can delete even more, I have just yesterday released new updated version of Mac Cleaning 🧹 you can have a look here: ruclips.net/video/bC_MvCO8VLo/видео.html
Thanks mate, the instruction were super clear to follow
Thank you man. Life saver and saved my macbook. Thank you
I am really happy to hear that 👍💻
Thank you!! I found the massive file that I was looking for!
Oh my goodness thank you so much. I was looking all over the place for an explanation and everyone said “clear your cache and your logs,” but whenever I checked there everything is like 15KB at most, I was like “there is no way this is taking up 126.5 GB” I’ve waited a few more minutes and my documents have already jumped up to more than it was saying it took up before
dude i just saved 129 gigs my looking in ScreenRecordings, thanks man!
Can you please explain to me why all of a sudden, my Macbook Pro stole 1 whole GB from my storage when I have done absolutely NOTHING at all? Please, it's giving me a panic attack!
It’s actually very simple. Mac is using free storage to cache files in order to make them easily accessible👨🏼💻 And Ram memory is also offloading some data to a storage, it’s called ,,Swap” I am just working on the video explaining this I will let you know when it’s shared. But in general don’t worry about it. It’s taking the storage only temporarily. If you restart the computer it will be automatically freed again 👍
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial
I already restarted it twice, it did nothing. It stole 300 MB one day and last night it took 600 MB, I restarted for both of them and they did nothing.
@@jeannguyen3199 there is nothing to worry about especially if it’s such a small amount like 1 GB. The Mac can take 20 GB in order to run smoother. There are many processes running on the background. If you start running out of space Mac will free up this storage, but until you really need it, Mac will be using this free space 👍
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial
Well the space it took did come back a few hours ago. So thanks for the informations. But is this the same case with an iPhone, because the same thing is happening.
@@jeannguyen3199 Sure anytime! Yes it’s the same thing on the iPhone. I’m working on a video explaining how Ram memory works it’s related to this. It will be published on Monday 👨🏼💻👍
thank U very much, I found out After effects had 150gb of cache
wow, what a lifesaver! how do I like a video twice?
very nice video. well explained and articulated
thank you so much! my system storage went from 115 gb to 21 gb 🥶🥶🤑
Thanks a ton. It is a life saver video. However can you pls tell how to access Others folder as it has some 40 GB data and I am unable to access it.
Hello, I am happy you like the video. There is no others folder on the Mac. In others are ending up files which are not correctly categorised and basically the whole point of this video is to discover these files and reduce the size of it. 40GB is not much for ,,other" so you don't need to worry about it that much. I would recommend you to watch my recent video about cleaning up the storage in 2023: ruclips.net/video/bC_MvCO8VLo/видео.html
I just saved 400gb! I feel like a corny testimonial in a commercial but this guys video is the real deal. My culprit was Adobe After Effects and every version I used.
Awesome 👏 I’m glad it helped. It’s very common to ge Adobe software
Thank you very much. I never realized there were two library folders. I also learned about the show view options and calculate all sizes.
On Mac there are actually 3 library folders but let's not complicate it too much. Calculating all sizes is really useful 👨🏼💻
Thank you so helpful!! Freed so much space !
You are very welcome! I’m happy to hear that 👍👨🏼💻
Thank you so much for this video! I was going insane trying to find what was taking almost 200 GB of storage. Turned out to be an old game that i don't even play lol.
Thank you for your positive comment 🙏 I’m happy you find it useful and it helped you 👍
Thank you very much for this. I just discovered 60Gb plus of space being used by an app I rarely use.
Literally a life saver, thanks!
Great to hear! I am happy my video helped you. 👨🏼💻
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial Thanks : )
OW! What a great video! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful! I really appreciate your positive feedback 👨🏼💻
Most helpful video on this subject! Thank you.
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Really Nice video , It helped
AMAZING help! thank you!
I’m happy to hear that it helped you. Thank you for your positive feedback 👍🙏
THANKS BUDDY, Life Saver fr man fr
Any time! I am happy you find my video useful 👍
You literally saved my life. Thanks
@@JoseMiguel-tq9dc I’m happy to hear that mi video helped you with this issue 👍
Thank you for your help! Great video.
My apps are taking 700 GB. I have no idea why. When I look at manage, I can't find apps that take that much, the highest app takes like 10GB, and I don't have 70 apps that are 10GB.
After turning off and on the laptop, apps takes ≈ 500 GB. So I got like 200 GB free.
In Library it said the Application support takes 462,76 GB.
I deleted the files that took ≈ 100 GB.
Now apps takes 30,92 GB.
Great job 👏 I can see you have sorted that well
Can't see Library in Go menu
Hold down the option key on your keyboard and it will appear 💻
Thanks for the video this helped me find what was eating up almost 100GB of space. Apparently a 4 hour screen recording file somehow got recorded and saved in the library!
Wow that’s great! I’m glad it helped 👍👨🏼💻
omg i didnt know what was taking all my gb and i had a 6 hour screen recording!
@@cyupiid screen recordings are quite large files. When I’m making these videos it takes a lot of storage. I always need to find all the recordings and projects in final cut and manualy delete it 👨🏼💻
Finally.... after years of not knowing! Such a simple explanation. You are a digital garbage hero!!!!
It’s great to hear that you find my video useful 🙏👍
thank you for making this video
This worked
Wow. After months and months of nightmare of this storage issue, I finally have a solution after looking at your video. Cheers man, this was bloody useful! smh at Apple .. so bloody expensive and such a con
I am really happy you find my video useful! 🙏 It is always a struggle with space. I used to have 128GB MacBook Air and I was perfectly fine and now I can hardly fit in 1TB 👨🏼💻
Apple should be burned down to grounds. Normie bitc**s making apple profitable.
Brooo yesss THANK YOU SO MUCH
Yo I love this channe you got a new subscriber
Awesome! I am happy you are part of the channel now 👏 hopefully you will find many useful tips here 👨💻
Is there any way to prevent the caches from filling up again? I’m currently having to do this every week and only save about 100mb worth of stuff a week
Thank you so much, this is so helpful.
Thank you for your positive comment, it motivates me to keep creating more videos 👍👨🏼💻
Thank you so much! I completely forgot I downloaded epic games once I first got my Mac, and that freed over 100 gigs!
It's great my video helped you with that! 👨🏼💻
I have a 250gb Macbook 2019 with Ventura 13 installed, 200gb of which is taken "System Data" wtf Apple? At this point my laptop is not even usable.
Every update requires me to clear out a bunch stuff for me to update it
how long did it take to calculate bcz iv been waiting an hour
thx for help❤❤
Thank you so much, help me a lot.
Super helpful, thank you!
You are very welcome 👍 thank you for your positive comment 🙏
Man... Thank you so much... Your video is better than any app... In my case I had a huuuuge file and a lot Telegram media files... You just saved my day... Abraços do Brasil 🇧🇷
Awesome man 👍 I’m happy you found the files and save some space 👨🏼💻
amazing video, saved me a reset
Great 👍 I’m really happy to hear that
that was very helpful! thanks a lot
You are welcome 🙏 I’m glad it helped 👍
system file is 12gb, library folder is 30gb. meanwhile the "system" accounts for 80gb on my hard drive. so where is the mystery 40gb coming from? wonder if i'll ever find out -_-
thank you bro 💪💪
You are welcome 🙏 I’m happy you like the video
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial im happy too cuz at least i found where these fckin 700gb come from :D :D :D :D ::D
Thabks for video, I have a problem though, when i check the storage of my apps by going to the computer system info, and clicking get info of the applications folder it said that the applications on my mac are only 3 gb but when i check stoarge it says that the gbs for aps is 90 gb, pls help me.
Hello, the right number is the one from system settings. You can't just right click the applications folder to find out how much storage the applications are taking, because a lot of these applications has data stored in system library or in other users profile 👍👨🏼💻
AWESOME VIDEO!
How about if you waited already and its still the same?
Try to do it again, or click on manage button and then go back. Or update to macOS Ventura if you can. This issue is finally solved there 👍
Thank you so much..... this was a life saving video :)
Great to hear that! 👍👨🏼💻
Thank you sm , you save my life ❤❤
Do I have to be careful with what files I delete from the library folder because I am suppressing the urge to delete everything for storage because I don’t understand what any of my files mean, so I don’t know what I need to keep and what I don’t. Also will anything happen to my apps if I delete something from the library folder?
You have to be very careful with the Library folder. You should not delete anything from there what you don’t know, cause most of it is related to system itself. I have few videos on the channel regarding this topic. I would recommend you to watch it and follow the steps. It might help you save some storage.
My system data takes up 30GB and my library takes up 11GB, yet my Mac still says I have 155GB of system data. It's been like this for 2 months.
It is just the same never ending problem of macOS. These calculations just doesn’t show correctly. It has been completely redesign In MacOS Ventura. So once the new version is releases (sometime around the end of this month) you can update your macOS and I believe it will be showing correctly there 👍👨🏼💻
@@OneByteAcademyOfficial I've updated my Mac multiple times over the last 2 months; the last time was yesterday + it still has this issue. I appreciate your video anyway.
@@tttiffa I’m currently using beta version of macOS Ventura and it seems to be fine there, it shows system usage around 24GB. So hopefully it will be fixed for everyone after the official release 👍
Thank you, Sir. You are a life saviour.
Thanks bro is so useful
I’m happy to hear that 👍👨🏼💻
Why in the world was my "Docker/Data" folder taking up 64GB? Thank you, sir.
Thank very much ! 49 GB of WeChat cache in container folder 😢
Oh, that's a lot. It's great my video helped you find it and you got some extra storage now 👍💻