I have 88 gigabytes stuck in system storage, is there anyway to reduce that
I was looking at my storage and 88 gigabytes of my storage is taken up by system storage on my Mac. Is there anyway to reduce that number.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14
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I was looking at my storage and 88 gigabytes of my storage is taken up by system storage on my Mac. Is there anyway to reduce that number.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14
Have you emptied the trash lately?
Look for iOS backups…
/Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
OmniDiskSweeper shows you the files on your drive, largest to smallest, and lets you quickly Trash or open them.
https://www.omnigroup.com/more/
Purging local backups
Please note that although this doesn't affect your remote backup from Time Machine, this will get rid of the redundancy (at least until the next Time Machine backup) that a local backup disk will provide. If you need such redundancy or are worried about the recovery of your data then you would be best served to let macOS determine when to purge these files.
Start Terminal from spotlight.
At the terminal type tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates.
Hit enter.
Here, you'll now see a list of all of the locally stored Time Machine backup snapshots stored on your disk.
Next you can remove the snapshots based on their date. I prefer to delete them one at at time. Once my "System" disk usage is at an acceptable level, I stop deleting but you can delete all of them if you want to reclaim all of the disk space.
Back at the terminal, type tmutil deletelocalsnapshots YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS , where will be one of the dates from your backup. This will be in the form of xxx-yy-zz-abcdef. Try to start with the oldest snapshot.
Hit enter.
Repeat for as many snapshot dates as required
http://www.thagomizer.com/blog/2018/03/27/cleaning-up-time-machine-local-snapshots.html
tmutil deletelocalsnapshots / # deletes all the snapshots
And a fifth...
Mail >Window>Connection Doctor, uncheck Log Connection Activity.
I have 332 GB stuck in system storage and have done all that has been suggested everywhere! I'm at a loss as there won't be anything left stored locally and I still can't reduce it. I am really hoping for a solution soon.
I have 88 gigabytes stuck in system storage, is there anyway to reduce that