What is the "other" category on my mac book pro for hard drive space? I found out that it is taking a whole lot of my computer's space...how do I find what it is and optimize it?
Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2), none
It's everything on your drive that doesn't fit the other given categories.
how do I find out exactly what it is to get rid of that which I do not need?
If you need to remove files for space see The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing space on your hard drive. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
Under no circumstances should you try deleting files outside of your Home folder.
All of these are wrong. Try this. Go into your itunes /preferences/Devices....and view your device backups. Delete unneeded copies of device back ups. This is the culprit and after removing these you will gain 80% of this hard drive space back.
what is the other category on my mac book pro for hard drive space on how do I improve on it
