Running an M1 Mac Mini 8/256 & the "Other" storage is now up to 141 GB & steadily increasing. Now 142+ GB.
I have followed the recommended steps in "Manage Storage" to no avail.
I have read multiple articles & conversations on this and my questions is:
"When will macOS Big Sur purge 'Other' to free up space?" and/or "What else can I do (apps, etc) to fix this?"
Mac mini, macOS 11.0
I got a short list of Time Machine snapshots as well as a looooong list of TechTool Pro snapshots.
I did a search for "com.micromat.techtoolpro.2020" to try to locate & delete those snapshots w/o success. I did remove TechTool Pro though.
It's down to 140.48 GB.
Thanks for your assistance so far.
I do not know if this will work in Big Sur and M1 chipset
To see Time Machine Backup Snapshot stored locally , in Terminal copy and paste sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Thanks for the reply.
Time Machine is (& has been) running on an Airport Time Capsule.
I read the article & the only app that says it works on Big Sur is DiskSight. I downloaded it & identified several things & deleted ~8 GB.
Now Other is up to 143.15 GB. This makes no sense.
From what I have read at Micromat.com, to see techtoolpro snapshots, the App needs to installed. Now, I am guessing. If installed and can see the snapshots surly there is a way within the App to Remove their snapshots. Thus decreasing the Other Usage somewhat.
That's exactly what I needed to do. I searched Micromat's knowledge base & got 0 returns. After reading your response, I did a google search & found another section on Micromat's site that explained where to find the tool to remove snapshots. Did so & freed up over 100 GB - then deleted the app again.
Thank you very, very much.
mrbill62 - Very Welcome. It was a pleasure assisting in the matter.
Read over Here a very good article about " Other ". also, are you running Time Machine Backup without the drive attached? If so, attach the drive for a while and some of the seat shot would self remove after TM has performed its' task
Big Sur "Other" space purge
