55gb of 'other' files on macbook...

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55gb of 'other' files on macbook...

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I have about 55gb of 'other' files on my macbook and I don't have a clue what it is. I cleaned up my pc of files i could find and had no use of anymore. I currently have like 5 movies on my pc taking up like 5 gb. I also have about 2200 songs (downloaded), in My Documents. In Itunes i manually ordered/edited the songs on artist, album, title and album picture. I have no pictures on my macbook. After I removed some films i had about 19gb of free space. As soon as I wanted to update my Iphone on my macbook the 19gb space disappeared, having only 2 gb left. My macbook claims that is insufficient space to be able to complete the update and here I am... Anyone have an idea on this? Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Aug 2, 2015 3:22 AM

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OGELTHORPE

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Aug 2, 2015 3:33 AM in response to DaveD.

OTHER as such is not a problem once you understand what it represents:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867

Download from the Internet OmniDiskSweeper (free) and open it. It will show all of your files and the respective sizes. Delete or transfer to an external HDD the data you do not wish to retain on your MBP.

Do not forget to empty trash. Only then is space allocated for new data.

Ciao.

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DaveD. Author

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Aug 2, 2015 4:07 AM in response to OGELTHORPE

Simple, yet effective. Thanks for the quick replay and solution! Turned out i had a lot of backup files, old films and pictures which i though i had deleted.

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