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My "other" is 163.2 GB of my 250GB MacBook, but I can not figure out WHAT that other is, or how to clean it out...help PLEASE! I have offloaded literally EVERYTHING that I can and so system and other is all that is left and other just keeps filling up.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
Get Correct Storage Information
Do not use the information from the Storage section of the About This Mac dialog. Ignore the Storage information as it is typically wrong. To find out the correct information for any disk: Select a Desktop disk icon. Press Command-I to open the Get Info window and look at the topmost panel displayed. You will find the disk information displayed for Capacity, Available, and Used. If you have more than one disk/partition then repeat for each one on your Desktop.
The categories found in the Storage section of About This Mac is simply an arbitrary way of displaying files on your drive. There are no such categories actually on the drive.
"Other" contains any of the following types of files. They cannot necessarily be deleted wholesale. Furthermore, “Other” is not an actual, physical file. Rather it’s an arbitrary category to which the files are assigned.
See What is 'Other' and 'Purgeable' in About This Mac?
Get Correct Storage Information
Do not use the information from the Storage section of the About This Mac dialog. Ignore the Storage information as it is typically wrong. To find out the correct information for any disk: Select a Desktop disk icon. Press Command-I to open the Get Info window and look at the topmost panel displayed. You will find the disk information displayed for Capacity, Available, and Used. If you have more than one disk/partition then repeat for each one on your Desktop.
The categories found in the Storage section of About This Mac is simply an arbitrary way of displaying files on your drive. There are no such categories actually on the drive.
"Other" contains any of the following types of files. They cannot necessarily be deleted wholesale. Furthermore, “Other” is not an actual, physical file. Rather it’s an arbitrary category to which the files are assigned.
See What is 'Other' and 'Purgeable' in About This Mac?
Thank you for your help. I still can not figure out WHY my computer says it is full when I have nothing stored directly on it. It is either on an external or iCloud - please help me as it won't even open my email any more or do updates and I have no idea how to clean it - sorry.
Did you get the disk information using Get Info as I suggested earlier? What did it tell you? Did you read the article linked at the bottom of my earlier post? Have you examined your internal drive using Disk Utility?
Macbook storage issues
