system files using half of hard drive

Bought a new Pro with a 250 GB with an SSD hard drive. The "system" files are taking up about half of the hard drive. Talked to support, who could not tell me what these files are, and how to eliminate some of them. Their best guess was that the OS was trying to index a lot of data I moved over from thy old computer. Suggested that I wait for a week to let the OS complete the indexing. That was a month ago. Anyone have any ideas?

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jul 12, 2019 2:16 PM

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