How do I clear OTHER in my storage? Not sure how to clear caches.

How do I get rid of the 200 GB worth of OTHER items that are clogging up my storage. I've cleared trash, downloads, and backups are taking up 1% space on harddrive. Not sure how to purge my caches w/out deleting important stuff. I try to keep premier and after effects caches on external harddrives. Any help would be much appreciated!


MacBook Pro Retina Mid 2012

2.6 GHz Core i&

16 GB RAM

250 GB storage


Running El Capitan and haven't updated because I don't have enough space on harddrive to update it.

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 5:47 PM

Reply
5 replies

Sep 23, 2016 7:57 AM in response to StephinGR

If you have reindexed twice and it is still showing everything as Other, I don't have any more ideas about that. Myself, I ignore that breakdown as I don't find the information very useful. For me the main issue is how full is my drive and to deal with that I look for what are the large files that I might be able to move.


The following may help with that:

http://osxdaily.com/2016/02/06/mac-startup-disk-almost-full-message-fix/

OS X El Capitan: Increase disk space


There is also a 3rd party app that may be useful in locating large files -- OmniDiskSweeper: https://www.omnigroup.com/more

This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers.

How do I clear OTHER in my storage? Not sure how to clear caches.

Welcome to Apple Support Community
A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. Get started with your Apple Account.