How to delete the Other yellow section in Storage

Dear applewarm,

I just wanted to tell you how much of a legend, god and genisus you are.

I have been searching for almost a year on how to fix this problem and this worked straight away...

Thank you so so so so much

Campbell

Ps, I only created this account so I could thank you. I will Facebook this to all my friends who have the same problem

Thanks again

becky.g wrote:

How do you do the tests, I can't seem to get them to work... I have a total of 256GB on my mac but 243.7GB is taken up by the anonymous "other" section.

See "What is 'Other' and What Can I Do About It?"

<https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5142>

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Also see Time Machine Local Snapshots: <http://pondini.org/TM/30.html>

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OmniDiskSweeper (free download)

<http://www.omnigroup.com/more>

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When using OmniDiskSweeper, or any utility that shows all your files... See the following article if you want to run it as root

<http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_to_recover_missing_hard_drive_space>

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Boiler Plate Warnings:

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If you have a recurring, running out of disk space, problem, then OmniDiskSweeper may help identify where the space is going. Posting the suspected locations and files will help the forum help you to figure it out. Remember, we cannot see into your disk, you have to give us information to work with.

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DO NOT delete files in your Home Folder -> Library tree as there are things like your iPhone backups, your email messages, your application preferences, etc… If you think you have found something in your Home Folder -> Library that can be deleted, you should ask first.

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DO NOT delete files outside your home folder, as you may end up deleting something essential to macOS, and turn your Mac into an expensive “Door Stop”.

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I will point out that you will find some very large files in private -> var -> vm (these are the macOS virtual memory paging files (swapfiles) and where macOS stores the copy of RAM when your Mac is put to sleep). The swapfile(s) get deleted on reboot, and the sleep image is just going to be created again when you put your Mac to sleep.

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If you think you have found something to delete outside your home folder, it would be best to ask first before deleting. There are many examples of people deleting files outside their home folder, or renaming files, or changing the ownership or file permissions, and then their Mac stops running. Do not be one of those people. Ask first.

Hello Guys. I have the same problem in my MacBook Air 2013. Can someone explain how to repair it , step by step?? Pease!! 🙂

Thank you.

hey, you probably worked it out now but ill say it anyway for others who dont know, go to the search bar on the top left of your mac screen, then search for disk utility, from there it will come up with your macintosh drive, click it and then select the tab which says "first aid" , make sure youve selected that tab, and then click repair disk, mine took about two hours

hope this helped, good luck

Im having the same problem, but my storage just magically went all yellow and i had lots of free space. A lot of my friends have had the same problem with their MacBooks and theirs have crashed when they try to restart them. Could someone tell me what virus this is and how to fix it?

sounds like the computer has started in Safe Mode...

OS X: What is "other" space in About This Mac?

the hard drive space is ALL yellow when the Mac is in Safe Mode. Hope that helps.

i have been trying this but it doesn't work It still indicate the same amount of GB in Other if any one else has another technic please help me with this!!

Hello, I still have around 22 gigs of other left, I earased some things previous to the disk repair and verification. I can't seem to make it work or go away, i took a few minutes on both and the repair took its time but at the end of the whole process it did not work, i still have 22 gigs. Any suggestions?

any suggestions on what to do if I've verified and repaired disks and the "other" GB # didnt change at all?

I have the same issue as Cherryontop

In "About This Mac" it says I'm using about 230gigs and my My "other " storage reports about 139g, but when I do Omnidisk sweeper it only says I'm using about 100 gigs of storage. Huge discrepancy.

I've run disk doctor and checked the permissions several times. It did make some repairs but the Other storage remains the same and now it's not reporting any issues.

Also, I've been running the Disk Diag App to clear space, but it doesn't make any gains toward the 139g

Any suggestions?

This is WONDERFUL! I just got back 87GB! Thank you so much!