what is in the Other users and shared storage?
My Other users and shared storage - Shows it contains 1.04 GB which is way too big...how can I see what is there and get rid of some inorder to save disc space?
iMac 27″, macOS 15.2
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“System Data” (or “Other”) storage is an amalgam of files that don’t easily fall into the defined categories of “Audio" “Movies” “Photos” “Apps” and “Backups”.
You can’t directly manage the contents of this category. That is done by macOS. The category varies in size depending on the current state of your Mac.
What you can do…
• Empty the Trash in the Dock.
• Empty the trash in the Photos app.
• Delete unused and unneeded application installers from your downloads folder and desktop.
• Reboot your Mac at least weekly.
• Transfer files that you don’t use daily to an external drive and then delete them from the startup drive and empty the trash. Files that take up the most room are movies, images and music.
• Move your Photos library to an external drive.
• Force Time Machine to delete local snapshots:
About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support
• Use Disk Utility to delete APFS snapshots:
View APFS snapshots in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
This from Apple on the subject of storage management
Free up storage space on Mac - Apple Support