Look how huge is the system storage:
Is anyone having the same problem than me? I do not konw why this is happening.
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13), 13", 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, 3,3 GHz
I went to Launchpad then "Other", then to "Terminal". When that opens, you'll see a prompt after your user name. Then type this:
sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Be sure to include the spaces and the "/" at the end.
It will ask for your password which is the same password you use to unlock your Mac.
Then it will list the snapshots you have on your system. The rest is explained in JamBeats post from earlier in this thread. I'll paste it here:
Sep 29, 2017 7:09 AM in response to rafaelalvesgb
Turned to our good friend Google and I found that Time Machine local backups were the reason and 'sudo tmutil disablelocal' command was supposed to help, if only "disablelocal" verb had not been removed from High Sierra. So back to square one.
Did some digging a.k.a. opened the manual for tmutil. I found that there were two useful verbs "listlocalsnapshots" and "deletelocalsnapshots". Used the first one to get the exact date stamps required for the second one and deleted all local snapshots manually.
Result: "System" went from 158GB to 20GB.
Step by step I went as following:
Code:sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
This resulted:
Code:com.apple.TimeMachine.2017-09-27-005259
com.apple.TimeMachine.2017-09-27-104645
com.apple.TimeMachine.2017-09-27-114218
com.apple.TimeMachine.2017-09-27-124220
I took these four date stamps and followed the next command with each as following:
Code:tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2017-09-27-005259
So in the end if i double checked with
Code:sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
there were no snapshots and after checking "About This Mac -> Storage" I was overjoyed!
Hope this helps!
Credits to Mac Rumors user: lainvoo
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I had about 8 snapshots in my original listing. After doing this procedure, my system storage size went from over 1.2TB to just over 20gb.
Hope that helps! Thanks again to JamBeats for posting the process.
What is the code you typed? I hope you remembered to change the name of the code how your backup was saved in your system.
I got it wrong, the 1st time and then found out by intuit that I needed to change it. Then it worked.
Thanks for sharing and I'm glad you resolved your issue. Regret that I'm not savvy enough to do the same by myself on Terminal with your post. Perhaps you could go through a step-by-step description of how to find and unmount/uninstall a disk volume or multiple disk volumes?
This has been happening to me for months now. Had a workaround because nothing actually fixes the issue ... I have been restarting, and the system file allocation goes back to normal. Today, I installed the new update to High Sierra and the issue is actually amplified! I Am going back to El Capitan because apple doesn’t seem to have a solution or even acknowledge that there is one. Hours of time with support and have already done about 10 clean installs and have wiped and started from scratch twice. I give up.
Hello, I have the same problem but the terminal commands are working... at least nothing is being listed.
This is what I've done in Terminal
Last login: Sat Apr 28 19:11:51 on ttys000
Apple-MacBook-Air-2:~ SteveMac$ sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Password:
Apple-MacBook-Air-2:~ SteveMac$ sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Apple-MacBook-Air-2:~ SteveMac$
Is it possible I have this much space on my system for another reason. I have 'automatic' backups turned off on Time Machine. I don't even use Time Machine--at least I didn't think I was and this has only been happening for the last several weeks. Any ideas?
This looks like a very promising solution, but it's not working for me. When I try listlocalsnapshots, there are no results. I've tried numerous times, going back and enabling root user, etc. But no change.
I used to run Time Machine, but stopped a while back. So it's not currently configured on this machine. Yet all the symptoms of the issue match perfectly, and the problem didn't appear until the High Sierra upgrade.
Any other suggestions?
Hey Guys,
I'm so frustrated, I've read and tried through every suggestion (clearing up TM backups, Spotlight, Daisy Disk) and nothing seems to be working. I've basically deleted music, pictures, etc. in an attempt to free up space from "System". It's taking 235 GB out of my 250 GB available! HELP
This may be the same trouble.
thx man this helped from over 300 GB to 41 GB not bad
This worked great. Thank you.
Hi What exactly did you do? Thanks!
Hi - what exactly did you do to solve the issue? Thanks.
Thank you very much, I was getting frustrated over this issue. 600gb recovered !!!
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Thanks for this clear instruction. Took my system memory from 340 GB to 22 GB by deleting 3 images.
Glad to have helped.
thank you, was super helpful. I am hoping that apple is going to fix the glitch in High Sierra, super not good. This glitch used up my hard-drive.
macOS High Sierra – Huge System Storage
