Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone can help me gain some space back on my mid 2012 macbook air 128gb. After upgrading to yosemitie I have 45 GB in the other section of my SSD. Is this normal? any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks
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45G o 'other' on SSD
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"OmniDiskSweeper" download would help narrow down the area of contention.
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If you're wondering what "Other" category in the storage tab is about, this may help explain: For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:
- Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.
- For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion or later, space may being consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled by entering the following command in Terminal: sudo tmutil disablelocal.
- Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.
- Search with Finder to see if the space is being consumed by a very large file or several large files. Adjust the 50GB in the illustration to whatever size you deem appropriate.
- Use OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report, Disk Inventory X, DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to see how space is being used on your drive. Some of these apps may show more detail than others, so try several.
- Check your drive with Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
- Try re-indexing your drive: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes
- Encrypted drive
- Time Machine backup files and needed disk repair
- App filling log file
- App or file was 89GB
- Drive needed to be re-indexed
- Time Machine backup file
- Large app cache file
- Garageband files and video podcasts
- Oversized email being duplicated
- Another email issue
- 18.45EB of movies shown
- Duplicate movies in iPhoto app
This has just cleared me 17gb's of space. I'm not really sure whats safe and not safe to delete though. Cheers
This has just cleared me 17gb's of space. I'm not really sure whats safe and not safe to delete though. Cheers
I've used a program called Disk Inventory X which I can recommend. Gives you a nice sorted list and graphic showing where your storage space is going. Doesn't clean anything for you automatically but easy enough to do it by hand.
I second this. Its extremely helpful with knowing what to delete. Really comes in handy with freeing up space with my 128GB drive