Why is system storage taking up so much space on my hard drive?

Hi,

The system storage on my MacBook is taking up a huge amount of space--171GB. I rebuilt the Spotlight index but it didn't make a difference.

The amount of free space will also change rather dramatically throughout the day, from 44 GB to 125 GB within an hour.

Any ideas?

Posted on Mar 10, 2018 12:48 PM

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