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System using too much space

My Mac is running out of room on the drive because the System is using 182 GB of space on a 256 GB Drive.

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jul 12, 2019 12:57 PM

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Posted on Jul 12, 2019 1:06 PM

I suggest starting here: How to free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support

FYI ... System includes:

Time Machine local snapshots, but are marked as 'purgeable' and should not be remove manually. However, they can be, as follows:
- To get a list of snapshots from the Terminal: sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
- To delete individual snapshots: tmutil deletelocalsnapshots <enter the snapshot>
Spotlight Indexing
- How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
iCloud Storage of infrequently-used files.

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