What does "other" mean in storage info

evanfromringgold wrote:

When i check my storage on my mac, it tells me how much hardrive is taken. one category is other, which is 30 gigs. Does any one know what other is?

Everything that is not covered by the other categories is in the 'other' category

Then you need to know what you are deleting, download Omni disk sweeper or Grand Perspective and look, don't delete anything, move it to an external drive (that way if you move something important you can put it back) and remember to empty the trash or you will not recover any space at all

hi guys! i am also having the same problem, can somebody teach me how to delete or clear the space on the ''other'' category? thank you

anjcespedes wrote:

hi guys! i am also having the same problem, can somebody teach me how to delete or clear the space on the ''other'' category? thank you

Read what has already been posted in this thread!

Other is just that; everything besides the categories listed.

OSX, it's work files, caches, logs, etc.

Everything in user accounts other than the categories listed, such as documents, spreadsheets, emails, contacts, etc.

See Lion's Storage Display for details.

Pondini wrote:

Other is just that; everything besides the categories listed.

OSX, it's work files, caches, logs, etc.

Everything in user accounts other than the categories listed, such as documents, spreadsheets, emails, contacts, etc.

See Lion's Storage Display for details.

I don't see a category for documents:

Just Audio, Movies, Photos, Backups and Apps, I think that documents are included in 'other', although rereading your post suggests that is what you said 🙂

the Omni Disk sweeper worked for me!

Thanks!

This may be a dead post but i just ran into the same issue i had roughly 7 gigs of "Other" and i freaked! Well digging around the web i found a solution that worked for me. I have an iPhone 4 16GB and i read that the "other" is sometimes SMS data so clearing out your SMS messages saved in your phone would clean some of that "Other" Data out. So thats what i did i erased all of my text/sms messages and unhooked, and the rehooked my iphone into the computer and pulled up itunes, I now have a mere 0.93GB of that yellow "other" filling my iphone. 0.93GB i can handle though i would like to know what it is im not nearly concerned about it as i was almost 7 something GB of unaccounted for data.

Again:

1. Unplug iPhone

2.goto "Messages" app and delete all un-important SMS messages (all if possible)

3.Plug iPhone back into computer and run iTunes and your device should be all but clear of that insanely high amout of "other" data

NOTE: I do not have an iPod touch that has ever had this problem so for iPod useres im not sure if this will help you any, sorry 😟

I just tried deleting my text history, but it did not reduce the yellow! 😟

What do you mean by "text history"?

How large was whatever you deleted?

See Lion's Storage Display for details of what's in "other", and, if you think there's too much stuff on your system that you don't recognize, click the Where did my Disk Space go? link.

I deleted all the text conversations I have had with my phone since I got it 18 months ago. Probably about 40 different conversations.

How much data was that? I doubt it took up much space -- text files are normally quite small, likely not enough to make any noticeable difference.

Check out the links in my previous post.

I have been using my macbook pro alot since I got it in november last year. I now have 0ver 160gb of other alone, and I don't know if i should just delete all the files which dont mean anything anymore.