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I have a MacBook Air running Catalina. of 128GB of storage, I have 1.65GB available. 40GB of the storage being used is Other. I can't get rid of it. I've moved everything I could but nothing has changed. Should I wipe it and start over?
MacBook Air
The support article you came here from offers Apple's suggestions on how to free up storage on your Mac. Did you try them already and they didn't work for you?
If not, see if this article can help:
If none of those work, your suggestion to wipe you notebook is doable, but a bit extreme. If you really want to go that route, then the following two articles should provide you the means to do so:
The support article you came here from offers Apple's suggestions on how to free up storage on your Mac. Did you try them already and they didn't work for you?
If not, see if this article can help:
If none of those work, your suggestion to wipe you notebook is doable, but a bit extreme. If you really want to go that route, then the following two articles should provide you the means to do so:
Here is Apple's explanation on the other category and it mentions that you cannot manage it - the OS does.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/system-information/syspf9b375b9/11.0/mac/11.0
It will also fluctuate and can contain Time Machine snapshots which you can get rid of.
And, be very careful: if you fill it up completely, the computer will simply stop functioning.
Wipe MacBook Air to Delete Other and Free Up Storage
