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Q: 40 GB of other on mac
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Apr 7, 2016 12:25 PMby theratter,How to Free Up Space on The Hard Drive
- You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
- Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
- Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
- See Where did my Disk Space go?.
- Be sure to Empty the Trash to recover the space.
- Replace the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
- Use OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.
See User Tip: What is "Other" and What Can I Do About It?- Apple Support Communities.
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Apr 7, 2016 12:36 PMby OGELTHORPE,Once you understand what OTHER actually consists of, do not become obsessed that you MUST delete any thing:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
Focus on User and Application files if you want to create spaCe on your MBA.
Delete Library files only if you know that they can be deleted. They take up so little room that it is pointless to even try to prune them.
Ciao.
