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Storage is Full

I have less than 20 GB on my Mac Air but the system total is 111 GB. What is all of the storage not showing up? I cannot download the updates because it says I don’t have space.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Oct 3, 2020 5:11 PM

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User profile for user: neuroanatomist
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Posted on Oct 4, 2020 11:48 AM

In that case, your best option is to reinstall macOS using recovery mode. You can do that without deleting your data on the drive.


How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support

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Oct 4, 2020 11:36 AM in response to neuroanatomist

Hi. Mine does not say Other. It says System has 105. 57 GB. I looked at Info for all of the files in System and none were large except Application support which was still only 1.32GB.

something is filling up the system storage but I can’t find it. Would one of the apps mentioned in the attached article identify what it is?

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