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your disk is almost full message

Your desk is almost full message - I have cleaned files, use iCloud back up, stored photos on external drive - issue is that my system is shown as using all the space - what can I do?

MacBook, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Nov 22, 2018 1:33 PM

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Posted on Nov 22, 2018 3:28 PM

Some potential options...


"System" storage on macOS Sierra is 470GB! - Ask Different

https://www.imore.com/how-reclaim-disk-space-system-macos-high-sierra

System Storage Taking Up Way Too Much Space in macOS Sierra


One or more of which might help get to the bottom of this particular usage.

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Nov 22, 2018 3:30 PM in response to potter13

Where you looking? apple icon > about this mac... > storage has been reported by many to be inaccurate.


I believe that get info is correct.



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Be careful when deleting files. A lot of people have trashed their system when deleting things.


Place things in trash. Reboot & run your applications. Empty trash.


Go after large files that you have created & know what they are. Do not delete small files that are in a folder you do not know what the folder is for. Anything that is less than a megabyte is a small file these days.


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Empty the trash. Space isn't reclaimed until you empty the trash in three places!

The trash can...

-- in the dock

-- for iPhoto

-- with Mail


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Run

OmniDiskSweeper

"The simple, fast way to save disk space"

OmniDiskSweeper is now free!

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/download/


This will give you a list of files and folders sorted by size. Go after things you know that are big.


To see all files, you need to logon to each user on your system and run OmniDiskSweeper

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