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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
Solved!
Been on the phone today for 1.5 h with a brilliant 😊 Apple Support Consultant who solved the case. Turns out the main problem was a log file in com.apple.mail which continuously kept adding on massive amounts of data
(Note that these are .txt files. We had fun calculating that a 560 GB file would equal about 560 trillion characters...)
So, deleted the log files and turned off log connection activity
...et voilá!
What a relief!
I cannot figure out where all of the storage is being used up. I have deleted so many things.
Very frustrating.
I have never had this kind of problem, and this is my sixth Mac. This is a stupid question
but can your hard drive have more space added?
OOPS! Well I just have to live with that one. I am afraid to delete anything else
though and won't now.
@lisalee55 have you seen @sageonthehill's answer on page 3?
He/she had the same problem I had - a log file was building up, consuming System space.
Check it out. HTH
My "system" takes up a whoping 755 GB storage, but when i did this terminal thing, no backups even showed up.
Nice tip, thanks.
What does the 686Gb / mean on the terminal window seconds to last line? Does it mean available storage?
Hi, no, in the 686GB /, / means the top level of the partition or drive, all of it in other words, or how much space is used on the whole drive.
macOS High Sierra – Huge System Storage
