All upgraded iOS since Snow Leopard hold about 100 gb of the 256 gb flash drive. How to keep Yosemite only and delete all the previous versions?

All upgraded iOS since Snow Leopard hold about 100 gb of the 256 gb flash drive. How to keep Yosemite only and delete all the previous versions?

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 15, 2015 1:31 PM

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May 15, 2015 1:41 PM in response to u2mei2u

OS X upgrades do not retain old versions. They are overwritten. So, your question makes no sense.


Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive


1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' 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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All upgraded iOS since Snow Leopard hold about 100 gb of the 256 gb flash drive. How to keep Yosemite only and delete all the previous versions?

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