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chrismckleroy

macrumors newbie
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Nov 7, 2021
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Howdy - long time forum reader - first time poster. So glad to have grabbed this new machine - love the industrial design!

I'm a bit stumped - the Mac OS file is already quite huge - 23GB when it should be 12GB - I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this Mac OS bloat?

Any tips on reducing this? Going to install the 12.0.1 update right now.

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TinyMito

macrumors 6502a
Nov 1, 2021
861
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Yeah, something fishing with yours. I have a 1TB SSD here and the OS is 15.7GB.
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chrismckleroy

macrumors newbie
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Nov 7, 2021
4
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Ok, a SW update seemed to get it reduced! Thank you!
 

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Mike Boreham

macrumors 68040
Aug 10, 2006
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Howdy - long time forum reader - first time poster. So glad to have grabbed this new machine - love the industrial design!

I'm a bit stumped - the Mac OS file is already quite huge - 23GB when it should be 12GB - I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this Mac OS bloat?

Any tips on reducing this? Going to install the 12.0.1 update right now.

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15.7 is the usual number and is consistent with the size of the System Volume shown in Disk Utility. (Screenshot below)

Your screenshot shows only two colour bars and a lot of grey, how long did you leave it?...it takes a little while to fully calculate.

What does your Disk Utility show?

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Mike Boreham

macrumors 68040
Aug 10, 2006
3,910
1,896
UK
Glad it fixed itself...your reply came while I was preparing mine.

Over the years I have not found that coloured Storage bar very reliable, or used it much.
 

chrismckleroy

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 7, 2021
4
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15.7 is the usual number and is consistent with the size of the System Volume shown in Disk Utility. (Screenshot below)

Your screenshot shows only two colour bars and a lot of grey, how long did you leave it?...it takes a little while to fully calculate.

What does your Disk Utility show?

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The Gray bar to the right of the macOS is System Data - which in this case I just mirrored my Google Drive with the computer - and I think it is registering as that.

Thank you all - I feel at home here in these forums.
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