"Other" Storage

[jrcsh6]

Working with my new computer and looking at the small storage, 128gb SSD (coming from 1tb HDD) I'm more mindful of usage. I'm seeing 23.5gb of "other". What is "other"? Any idea on how to get a profile of that?

 

[Weaselboy]

Other is anything that does not fall into one of the listed categories there.

 

[jrcsh6]

Right, I follow it's the "all else" but I want to audit what's in there, like under applications (see pic) to see about clearing up space. Other Catagories show contents but not the "other"

 

[chown33]

See this similar thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/system-bloat-over-310gb.2194145/

Two tools it suggests: DaisyDisk and DiskWave. It also has a Terminal command line example.

 

[jrcsh6]

Thank you

 

[Frankied22]

I am having the same issue on my 2015 13” MBP. macos is reporting roughly 110GB of “other”. I deleted my cache files but that was only like 14GB and it’s showing 44GB in Documents but if I go in there I see only 11GB of files. No idea where the extra is coming from. I’m not buying a program just to delete junk to clear up my storage that I should be able to delete manually.

 

[weaztek]

The way I found 20GB of message attachments is as follows: click option + Go > Library. I have 78 folder items there. I selected them all and hit command + i to get info on all them. It will open get info windows for all the items in several rows. You can look over the rows for huge folders. In my case Thunderbird (email) is 11GB and my messages was over 10GB. All the windows can be closed by command + w (a bunch of times).

 

[chown33]

... I’m not buying a program just to delete junk to clear up my storage that I should be able to delete manually.

DaisyDisk has a free trial version. And as noted in the thread I linked, DiskWave is free.

The command-line in Terminal is also free.