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
Hi, jb64, thank for your help. Your post was very useful.
But, I have some questions about the support article that you mentioned:
1) If was really the Time Machine snapshots the cause of the huge system storage, why my Finder window include local snapshots in their calculations of the storage space available on a disk, as you can see below? The amount is the same of "About This Mac". This seems not right.
2) I'm not a IT guy (actually, I'm a lawyer), but, if I understood correctly, sometimes the OS uses speed of SSD (instead use memory). This action of macOS storage snapshots does not make the MacBook be slow?
Anyway, I schedule a call with AppleSupport to see this matters more accurately and after orientation I'll post the proper informations here.
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
