I've cleared pretty much everything from my MacBook Air to make room to install macOS Monterey. There still isn't enough room. How to do I install the OS? I don't even know if this is the most recent OS, this is just what my laptop is trying to install. Please help!
If this computer has the small 128 GB drive - it is going to be challenge.
Even afterthe clean up an even bigger challenge to keep at least 15% to 20% of the Drive Total Capacity as Empty Space for good operations of the computer and for additional updates to Monterey to download, expand and install.
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Notation - If the user is using a cloning software like Carbon Copy Cloner - suggest tweaking the Safety Net Feature in this software. It may be making addition Snap Shots that are not being Cloned to the Eternal Drive. If this should be the case, these Snap Shot could be using additional space on the drive
The final word from Apple on Managing the " Other/ System Data “ Category
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.
See if this Apple YouTube video helps.
not enough memory to install new OS
