Q: other taking up large amount of storage
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Feb 1, 2016 11:12 AMby my ginger,Other is ambiguous, as it can contain anything including system files, history, updates and caches. You could reindex spotlight to see if that helps. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716 To find out what other is, you could download and run OmnidiskSweeper. https://www.omnigroup.com/more
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Feb 1, 2016 11:33 AMby OGELTHORPE,Here is the definition of OTHER:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867.
Do not dwell on the name of the category.
Download from the Internet OmniDiskSweeper and Grand Perspective (both free) and open them. They will show all of your files and the respective sizes. Transfer to an external HDD the files you do not want on your Mac or delete them.
Do not forget to empty trash. Only then is space allocated for additional data.
Ciao.
