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My MacBook Air tells me I am running low on storage. When I try to clear memory it says 166 of the 251 gb is stored in "system." I am unable to access "system" to see what is taking up the memory and ultimately delete unneeded stuff (see second picture, "system" is not selectable and I have tried clicking on it). How do I access this and delete unnecessary stuff? I will attach two screen shots of what I am referencing.
"System" is not the operating system itself, but represents deleted data on the device's flash that hasn't been overwritten yet. macOS does this to prevent unnecessary "wear" on the device's NAND RAM chips ... so you do not actually have the ability to delete anything is System.
However, here are a few articles that can prove helpful in gaining as much storage space as possible on your notebook:
"System" is not the operating system itself, but represents deleted data on the device's flash that hasn't been overwritten yet. macOS does this to prevent unnecessary "wear" on the device's NAND RAM chips ... so you do not actually have the ability to delete anything is System.
However, here are a few articles that can prove helpful in gaining as much storage space as possible on your notebook:
storage problems on MacBook Air
