other users taking storage MacOS Mojave

VikingOSX wrote:

Monterey has changed the name of the Other category to Other Users, but it means the same thing.

Wow! I cannot believe some of the idiotic changes that Apple has been doing with each update. It is not enough to confuse the average user, now they need to confuse the more technical users as well. Glad I saw your post as I've learned something new.

@dan385, If this is indeed the same as the old "Other" category, then either this value is being incorrectly reported by the macOS Storage Management feature or it may be valid and the data is hidden away in an APFS snapshot. Make sure all of your backups have completely transferred to external media and that all app updates are finished installing as well as macOS updates since macOS also creates a temporary APFS snapshot when updating apps and macOS. These temporary APFS snapshots are automatically deleted once the process has successfully completed. If you deleted any files since the APFS snapshot was created, then those "deleted" files are still contained within the hidden APFS snapshot. Once the APFS snapshot has been deleted, the storage space will be released.

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/reclaiming-drive-space-by-thinning-apple-file-system-snapshot-backups/

I too am on Mojave & have Other Users listed.

Awhile back I had over 200 GB unaccounted for, I don't have any idea if this would work for anyone else, have asked once but no reply... I used Mojave cache Cleaner to clean ALL caches & restarted, 200 GB returned. Onyx may work also.

Hello, I've seen it as Users, or Other, not ever Other Users using that much yet. Mine says Other users 9.62GB, yet the other users on my drive use 29 GB !?

Are you an admin?

Do you have iPhone or iPad backups on it?

I have never had any trouble with snapshots not releasing disk space (I use Carbon Copy Cloner for backups, if that matters). But in Monterey the Disk Utility might also manage them:

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/09/disk-utility-now-has-full-features-for-managing-snapshots/

Monterey has changed the name of the Other category to Other Users, but it means the same thing. Content managed by the operating system that you cannot remove. See used and available storage space on your Mac and in particular the Other section:

While this panel was calculating the storage for Other Users, it kept that name, and when it was done, no Other or Other Users was shown. Instead, it changed the name to System Data, and in my case, that was 38GB.