Hi All,
On my Macbook Air (256GB), around 100GB is taken up by 'System Data'. I checked with another Macbook Air owner (we have the same exact model) and he has only around 25GB of System Data.
Are there any ways I could reduce the amount of space taken up by this system data or not?
Thanks in advance.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.0
With such a small disk, my 2016 MBP has the same size, you're bound to have space issues sooner or later.
What I did when nothing else worked was to make several backups, wipe the drive and reinstall the OS. I did not fully restore my backup data ... just the personal files. I didn't want to "corrupt" the new OS installation with possibly flawed settings on the backups.
Here is what I did: Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support
I'm not recommending you do this, just pointing out what worked for me. I simply got to the point where enough was enough.
That is actually a very good way to fix the issue, but it erases your drive. If you copied all your files to a hard drive, other computer, etc, you could just erase the whole Mac and then copy the files back onto it.
Thats probably system caches, old Time Machine data, and other stuff like that. You can manually delete some of this. Third party apps do have options that could work but are not 100% sure to work.
Macbook Air hard drive storage
