I have 500GB of storage on my mac, and lately have had messages saying I'm out of disk space. I've put all my documents and photos onto the cloud so can't understand what the issue is. When I open settings it tells me I only have 8GB storage left - however when I click to see the breakdown of the 500Gb storage, there is 244Gb listed as "Other" which is greyed out and I can't click into to see what it contains. Has anyone else had this issue?
MacBook Pro 13″, OS X 10.11
You may get help here --> How to free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support
You may get help here --> How to free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support
Reinstall it self it not as drastic as you think if you only choose option to reinstall MacOS it will replace system files for you without touching your data and if the information on (MacOS) is corrupted on your drive it will correct everything $0 minutes job without any hassle.
I think you may be right - I can't seem to update the software - it's in a constant loop telling me I need to restart before install and after restart nothing happens and it says the same thing to restart! I've tried to reinstall but when I tried and got the reinstall screen upon restarting it says it can't download the OS because disk space is full! Even though now I don't have a single doc saved locally :( Is this a virus and what do I need to do, could you please help?
Thanks Peter, Do you think 250gb of "other" can be right? I tried the link and how to work out how much space I actually have but I now don't have anything showing up in my desktop - no files or anything at all! I tried to reinstall and I can't even update the software now as it's telling me I'm out of diskspace even though I've literally put every single doc in the cloud!
Double check your iCloud settings. Make sure "Optimize Mac Storage" is enabled.
If you are willing to try something in the Terminal, you can try running the following command:
/usr/bin/tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 10000000000 4
And press enter. This will delete the local snapshots that are holding onto all your deleted files. This should reclaim a lot of that storage.
First choose option for disk utility and then in the corner of utilities choose show all devices it will help you to wipe everything from the drive as catalina does not allow you to select the whole disk.
Then you can reinstall from internet recovery.
Hi,
It looks like you have corrupted MacOS and fresh install of MacOs should help.
Here is the Apple article that can help to do it.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204904
before you do the drastic step of a reinstall see also https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251771065
"Other storage" and System files are not the same thing.
If you indeed have all your documents photos etc safely stored elsewhere then follow Mattymusicman's advice to reinstall the OS but choose the Erase option.
Limited storage space
