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Storage Question.

I have a late 2014 Macbook Pro retina. I just happened to check how much storage I have after a few months of use and I noticed that I have 93.83 gb free. 42 gb are used up by the "apps" portion on the usage bar and the main reason I came here was to question this. Does this sound about right for how much storage I should have? This laptop is mainly used for school purposes so I have Microsoft Office 2011 Installed as well as all of the Apple app's like iPhoto, pages, etc. Then I have google chrome installed and that is it. No games. When I go into finder, I see that Microsoft Office doesn't appear to be that large of a file. I know that I don't really get the full 128 gb due to the OS. I just feel like I should have more storage free. Thanks.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Feb 20, 2015 8:56 PM

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User profile for user: dominic23
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Feb 21, 2015 1:14 AM in response to Ty9704

Go step by step and test.


1. Start up in Safe Mode.


http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212



2. Empty Trash.


http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13806



3. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots

Local backups


http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878



4. Delete old iOS Devices Backup.


iTunes > Preferences > Devices

Highlight the old Backups , press “Delete Backup” and then “OK”.


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US



5. Re-index Macintosh HD.


This will take a while. Wait until it is finished.


System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy


http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409



6.Try OmniDiskSweeper. This will give the storage size details of the items.


https://www.omnigroup.com/more



Select Macintosh HD and click “Sweep Selected Drive” at the bottom.


Delete the files you don’t want to keep.


Be careful. Delete only the files that can be safely deleted.

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