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Q: How To Delete "Other" Storage From Mac?

Ok well I was looking at my mac storage and I have 1.15 GB Free out of 499.25 GB. From this 319.93 GB are from the Other section (yellow bar). I want to free a TON of space up. How can I delete files from this "other" section, and what is in this section.

 

Thanks !!!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Jun 8, 2012 5:49 PM

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  • by Haider841,

    Haider841 Haider841 Jan 11, 2016 7:57 PM in response to seeweespam
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    Jan 11, 2016 7:57 PM in response to seeweespam

    Hi

    it looks like i found a way to get ride from deleted files that you have physically deleted from your mac, but they have't been really deleted. (pardon me for my English)

     

    1st, you got to have (OmniDiskSweeper), and (Clean my mac).

    2nd, Open OmniDiskSweeper and choose your drive, which is probably ( Macintosh HD).

    3rd, Choose .cleverfiles.>hlink.db. you will see so many files that you deleted in the past but they are still in your mac.

    Now in the page of  OmniDiskSweeper at the very bottom at the left corner, you'll see a white file picture, press it and a window will pop out, select all the files by clicking ( Command+A) now right click on the touchpad, from the menu choose (Erase Using Clean my mac).

    Now Clean my mac will pop out and you'll see al the file you selected to delete. you'll see a circle at the bottom of Clean my mac that says ( Shred) press it.

    now you will have gotten rid of some of the others lol.

  • by Carter Brown,

    Carter Brown Carter Brown Jul 5, 2016 10:19 AM in response to thkdfrnt
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    Jul 5, 2016 10:19 AM in response to thkdfrnt
    THAN YOU FOR LETTING THIS BE KNOWN.

  • by Hanani,

    Hanani Hanani Sep 3, 2016 2:18 AM in response to iamserrot
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    Sep 3, 2016 2:18 AM in response to iamserrot

    Great ! now the "other" is with one iphone backup and my "other" is "only" 61GB....

    what is the 120GB of "backup" I have on the 500DB SSD ?

    Could it be Time Machine ? ( I am backing up to a WD external drive....)

    Can I see what is the "backup" is combined of which adds up to 120GB?

     

    Thanks,

     

    Hanani

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