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Feb 17, 2016 10:17 AM in response to AppleBuyerby dwb,Note that Applications, Movies, Photos, and Audio are specifically mentioned. Other is everything else that isn’t mentioned. It includes the operating system, your documents, and anything else it cannot determine belongs in any of the other categories. By the way, Clean My Mac isn’t held in very high regard among veteran Mac users - it is more trouble than it is worth.
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Feb 17, 2016 10:59 AM in response to AppleBuyerby Allan Jones,You may have a known bug when "About this Mac" displays disk usage. Try another method to check free space. Highlight your hard drive icon and press the space bar to get this:
If this method shows MORE free space than the "About this Mac" method, you eed to reindex your Spotlight database. Instructions here:
Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes - Apple Support
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Feb 17, 2016 11:09 AM in response to AppleBuyerby OGELTHORPE,This is the Apple definition of OTHER:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
It is a poorly named category that you should not get too worried about.
Ciao.

