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Of the 251Gb storage on my MacBook Pro, 173Gb is taken up by System. This seems excessive. How can I reduce this? I'm running Mojave.

Of the 251Gb storage on my MacBook Pro, 173Gb is taken up by System. This seems excessive. How can I reduce this? I'm running Mojave.

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Posted on Dec 7, 2020 3:58 AM

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Posted on Dec 7, 2020 4:26 AM

That is excessive. Reinstall macOS, you can do that without deleting your data (but back up first, just in case).


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Of the 251Gb storage on my MacBook Pro, 173Gb is taken up by System. This seems excessive. How can I reduce this? I'm running Mojave.

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