Q: How much storage space does a user account take up?
Hi there,
I have a MacBook Pro Retina, mid-2014 model, running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5, 2.6 GHz processor, 8GB of memory, and a 128GB hard drive.
I want to free up some space on my hard drive, and I'm wondering what this "other" category entails - as you can see in the picture, "other" accounts for 53.77GB - a significant amount of space on this hard drive. I've done a lot already to eliminate other big files, including buying a 2TB external hard drive for photos, movies, duplicate detective, etc.
My question pertains to user accounts. I have two user accounts on my computer, so I'm wondering if the setting up and running another user account is taking up a lot of the storage space, specifically in the "other" category? I can't seem to find much on any forums about this topic anywhere. Can anyone shed light on this issue?
Thanks in advance for your help!
- Jamieson
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Sep 8, 2015 2:35 PM
I think I've found a solution to my original question. I finally got around to deleting the secondary account that I ended up not using for the past five months, and after moving all files I needed over to my main account (about 1.5GB of the 2GB), I suddenly have an extra 15GB of empty storage space!
I don't have an answer as to how this happened or what types of files were removed, but deleting this account has certainly opened up a lot of space.
- Jamieson
Posted on Feb 3, 2016 6:29 PM

