other storage is very high how to delete

On my MacBook Pro "Other" is taking up a lot of storage. How to delete?

MacBook Pro, iOS 7.1.2

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 6:26 PM

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Feb 18, 2016 6:56 PM in response to skipboylan

Depending on the Mac OSX version, using "About this Mac' to view free space will give inaccurate results due to a known bug. There are two methods that will give you accurate free space readings:


1) Highlight the hard drive icon and press the SPACE bar to get this:

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2) Right-click on the hard drive icon and select "Get Info" in the resulting contextual menu to get this:

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If either method shows MORE "free" or "available" space (depending on method) than the report in "About this Mac," you need to reindex the Spotlight database:


Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes - Apple Support

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