How To Delete "Other" Storage From Mac?

Ok well I was looking at my mac storage and I have 1.15 GB Free out of 499.25 GB. From this 319.93 GB are from the Other section (yellow bar). I want to free a TON of space up. How can I delete files from this "other" section, and what is in this section.


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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Jun 8, 2012 5:49 PM

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Posted on May 3, 2015 2:27 AM

I also found another way to delete "other". If you currently use the Messages app. All of your texts as well as attachments files are saved to your computer. For example: I use the Messages app on my computer and I have a group chat with all of my friends and we share countless attachments every day. I deleted the message in the Messages app and that DID NOT free up any space and then I realized that even when you delete a message from the Messages app on your mac it does not delete the Archive of that message. If you click the magnifying glass in the top right corner and type in the contacts name, the archived message will show up in your finder. Navigate to that folder and you will see all of your archived messages. DELETE all of these and then empty from trash and you will see a lot of space free up in "other". I deleted all archived messages and it freed up over 50gigs. Doing this along with deleting your iPhone backups and ensuring you only have one - the most recent - will surely free up space in "other". Hope this helps and hope my explanation was good enough to follow.

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