haayleyrosee
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Q: Memory on hardrive

When looking at how much memory I had left on my Macbook Air I saw I had about 50gb of files in the "other" category. How do I find out what these files are so I can delete them? I'm running out of memory on my computer because of it.

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), iOS 8.4

Posted on Aug 6, 2015 7:18 AM

by OGELTHORPE,Apple recommended
OGELTHORPE OGELTHORPE
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Mac OS X
A:

Here is a definition of OTHER:

 

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

 

With this knowledge in hand you now do not want to delete all of those files.

 

Download from the Internet OmniDiskSweeper and Grand Perspective (both free) and open them.  They will show all of your files and the respective sizes.  This will enable you to select those files you want to delete or transfer to an external HDD.

 

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

 

Ciao.

Posted on Aug 6, 2015 10:16 AM

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    OGELTHORPE OGELTHORPE Aug 6, 2015 10:16 AM in response to haayleyrosee
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    Aug 6, 2015 10:16 AM in response to haayleyrosee

    Here is a definition of OTHER:

     

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

     

    With this knowledge in hand you now do not want to delete all of those files.

     

    Download from the Internet OmniDiskSweeper and Grand Perspective (both free) and open them.  They will show all of your files and the respective sizes.  This will enable you to select those files you want to delete or transfer to an external HDD.

     

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

     

    Ciao.