Access 'Other' Storage

Wonderwall1234 wrote:

Under the Storage tab in About this Mac, I have 422 GB of gray 'Other' that I'd like to access/delete. However, it's grayed out (as below). How to do I access it? I'm switching to a new Studio mac and don't want to migrate this over.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/9f2cda35-0111-4de2-9bec-5275b882300e

Other is just a a catch all....

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Other / System Data: Contains files that don’t fall into the categories listed here. This category primarily includes files and data used by the system, such as log files, caches, VM files, and other runtime system resources. Also included are temporary files, fonts, app support files, and plug-ins. You can't manage the contents of this category. The contents are managed by macOS, and the category varies in size depending on the current state of your Mac.