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Hi - my iMac is running low on space (I have 1TB disk). When I click on This Mac in main menu it shows I have over 700GB in Other. This seems to be a huge amount of data compared to other applications. Any ideas how to review and delete this ? - thanks
Ignore the 700GB of Other. Other is just Apple’s way of saying it doesn’t know what applications these files belong to.
Typically a 1TB drive that is close to being full has lots of media files: movies and other video, music, and photos. To quickly determine if this is your issue open your personal folder and find the Music folder. Select it and get info. Make a note of how much space it is using. Move to the Pictures folder and do the same.
It is easy to move music and video to an external drive to free up that space. Moving pictures is a bit more problematic if you are using Photos and syncing pictures over iCloud. If so you’ll have to keep your Photos library on the internal drive. If not that folder can also be moved to an external drive.
thanks for your help dwb
Click on ‘About this Mac’, click ‘Storage’ and then click ‘Manage’. This gives you the option of deleting unwanted files. It won’t display system files which account for hidden space.
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