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Sep 22, 2016 6:34 PM in response to StephinGRby FoxFifth,One possibility is that the numbers shown for Other are wrong. If so, re-indexing may correct that: Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
The following may also help:
What is 'Other' and 'Purgeable' in About This Mac? - Apple Support
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Sep 22, 2016 6:54 PM in response to FoxFifthby StephinGR,Hi FoxFifth-
Thanks for your post. I just tried reindexing my user profile in my main harddrive, my desktop, other subfolders- not much change other than my entire storage bar indicating OTHER. Then I reindexed my overall hardrive and the OTHER storage jumped from 200 GB to 242. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
-S
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Sep 22, 2016 7:01 PM in response to StephinGRby StephinGR,FoxFifth-
I also just tried Reindexing from the terminal.
http://www.iphonetopics.com/force-spotlight-to-reindex-folder-volumes/
No go. Still totally full of other. Any thoughts?
-Stephanie
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Sep 23, 2016 7:57 AM in response to StephinGRby FoxFifth,If you have reindexed twice and it is still showing everything as Other, I don't have any more ideas about that. Myself, I ignore that breakdown as I don't find the information very useful. For me the main issue is how full is my drive and to deal with that I look for what are the large files that I might be able to move.
The following may help with that:
http://osxdaily.com/2016/02/06/mac-startup-disk-almost-full-message-fix/
OS X El Capitan: Increase disk space
There is also a 3rd party app that may be useful in locating large files -- OmniDiskSweeper: https://www.omnigroup.com/more
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Sep 24, 2016 4:45 PM in response to FoxFifthby StephinGR,Hi FoxFifth-
Thanks so much for your help. I used omnidisksweeper using this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBiXCNRdiGA
of instructions and got rid of a ton of files in my After Effects cache that I did not know were there. Thanks!