HT203527: Get help using iCloud storage
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Oct 13, 2013 11:41 AM in response to Trail and Mountainby AnaMusic,Trail and Mountain wrote:
Need help diagnosing what "other" is on my storage hard drive and delete it to free up space
Read Here > The Storage Display
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by Winston Churchill,Oct 13, 2013 11:42 AM in response to Trail and Mountain
Winston Churchill
Oct 13, 2013 11:42 AM
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Apple TVWelcome to the Apple Community.
Could you please tell us where it is that you see this 'Other'. -
Oct 13, 2013 11:48 AM in response to Winston Churchillby Kappy,It's displayed through About This Mac.
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by Winston Churchill,Oct 13, 2013 11:54 AM in response to Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Oct 13, 2013 11:54 AM
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Apple TVIt's not the only place it can occur, but I suspect you've nailed it.
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Oct 13, 2013 11:56 AM in response to Winston Churchillby Trail and Mountain,Its in the about my mac onder storage
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Oct 13, 2013 11:56 AM in response to Winston Churchillby Trail and Mountain,Im trying to free up about 258gb of storage
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by Winston Churchill,Oct 13, 2013 12:01 PM in response to Trail and Mountain
Winston Churchill
Oct 13, 2013 12:01 PM
in response to Trail and Mountain
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Apple TVI wouldn't worry about what it says in other, it isn't necessarily accurate and if it is, it's only stuff that doesn't fall into predefined categories.
If you need to delete data, I'd start by looking in your home folder and seeing what you don't need.
A better way might be to get an external drive and move it rather than delete it.
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Oct 13, 2013 12:06 PM in response to Trail and Mountainby Kappy,Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion's Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.
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by Winston Churchill,Oct 13, 2013 12:21 PM in response to Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Oct 13, 2013 12:21 PM
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