System Storage

Mohit_30 Said:

"System Storage: My system storage is 83 gb. Please suggest ways to reduce it."

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What Comes to Mind:

A. Clean TV and Music Libraries:

Remove all unneeded files from your TV and Music Libraries. Full-Movies take up 2-4GB typically, and a bunch of those would take up a load of storage, ideally. So, if you have any movies that are not needed, then delete them.

B. Clean Safari:

When is the last time you cleared the history and cache?. Clear your Temporary Internet Files(Cookies & Cache) of Safari: Cookies perform remembrance of certain site-entered data, whereas Cache keeps a snapshot of the last time you visited a site.

• Clearing The History:

1. Go To: History Menu
2. Select: “Clear History...”
3. Select: “all history”
4. Click: Clear History

• Clearing The Cache:

1. Unhide: The Develop Menu
2. Go To: Develop menu
3. Select: Empty Caches

C. What Else to Delete:

• Delete: Extremely Large Files (i.e. Virtual Machines)
• Empty: the Trash

Where are you getting this information from, is it About This Mac> Storage, if so the information in there is often wrong.

Try rebuilding the Spotlight index,

How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac – Apple Support

Move the Macintosh HD (or the name you gave your disk) in to the Privacy panel.

Quit System Preferences.

Open System Preferences> Spotlight> Privacy highlight Macintosh HD and press the minus button.

The mac will start rebuilding the Spotlight index.

Check by clicking on Spotlight in the menubar and enter a word, if it is indexing you should see a progress bar.

You can also use the Terminal app in your Applications> Utilities folder to force Spotlight to reindex.

Open Terminal.

Enter this command,

sudo mdutil -E <drag the icon of the drive you want to reindex here>

(make sure there is a space after the E.)

enter your Password.

(what you type will not be repeated on screen)

press Return

Terminal will confirm if indexing is enabled on the Volume/ drive and after a few seconds 

Spotlight should begin reindexing.

To confirm click on the Spotlight icon in the menubar, type in a word, if there is a progress bar, Spotlight is indexing.

If re-indexing has not solved your problem then run this app, https://www.omnigroup.com/more

this will give an accurate account of the storage used. When the app has created its overview you can look at

the Users folder in the output and see what each user has stored, you can then delete files from there.

Do not delete any files or folders in any System or Library folders or any files you do not understand.