80GB of Other Storage, having space difficulties

I have about 80GB of "Other" visible when I manage storage, out of 121GB, as a result of this I am having troubles updating the system and applications, what is "Other" and is there anyway for me to free some space from it?

I'm on Catalina 15.1

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 28, 2020 9:52 AM

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LD150

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Feb 28, 2020 3:56 PM in response to falcon221

Start by looking for the obvious big files

In Finder click Go then Go to Folder and paste in

~/Library

Click on the size column to show the biggest folders like Application Support which contains iOS backups, and Mail and Caches etc. If you need any help removing them come back.

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