Anyone else experiencing System Data filling up fast on VP? Mine is already at 75GB. I've only downloaded 3 small apps, no movie downloads. Mac has some way to clean up System Data....but not sure how to do this on Vision Pro. Thanks in advance.
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Vision Pro System Data filling up fast
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I would wait for it to hit the max storage before sounding the alarm. If I remember correctly, the Apple Store has a diagnostic tool for the AVP that can see if the system data is real or not. That would be your best bet since the only thing that could fill System Data that fast would have to be the point clouds and sensor data.
Over 100GB for me. But the operating system reports it is still available.
did a restore last night. And it's up to 60GB within 6 hours.
Good to know. I'll be sure to check out this option before the 14 day window. Lots of ways to clear System Data on a Mac....but it's a mystery with the VP.
Anyone find a solution to this, or has your "System Data" naturally returned to normal? I took mine to the Apple Store, but they just did a restore. Brought it back home, set it up again, and Sytem Data has climbed to over 50Gb within a few hours. And I have not downloaded any apps, browsed safari, nothing since the restore. Later tonight I may try to download a bunch of movies to see if in fact it is affecting available storage.
I've been annoyed by a similar issue on my Mac. Get Info for my drive sometimes reports a large amount of 'purgable' data that I don't know how to purge. The reported available capacity is as I expect rather than being reported much less due to the 'purgable' data still being on the drive.
I've learned to ignore it. MacOS just makes the purgable data go away as needed so I get my expected capacity after all.
Perhaps the same thing is happening on the Vision Pro. Either way, Apple should avoid reporting this temporary data to the user as it just causes confusion.
David
I've learned to ignore it. MacOS just makes the purgable data go away as needed so I get my expected capacity after all.
Perhaps the same thing is happening on the Vision Pro. Either way, Apple should avoid reporting this temporary data to the user as it just causes confusion.
David
Turns out I am unable to use the full storage, was hoping the “system data” was phantom. I downloaded as many movies I could to test it, and it wont let me download anymore because of the 80 GB designated for “system data”. Ugh.
I haven't seen any updates. I can tell you I have restored my VP a couple times, with no luck. The "system data" just fills back up quickly, even if I don't download any additional apps. I just have to assume it's a "bug" and hope it will be fixed soon. That's a lot of unusable storage we paid for.
Photos and iCould storage are categorized separately. "System Data" is usually categorized as logs, caches, deleted files etc". Usually easy to clean up on a Mac or iPhone...but no apparent way to do so on a VP. Probably just a bug.
Well, Im glad Im not the only one. As they say, "misery loves company". Hopefully this issue gets elevated.
Unfortunately, in my case, that was not the situation. I downloaded tons of movies to test this theory and the “system data” didn’t budge. Still unusable storage.
Hell, I would settle for 30GB! Mine has ballooned to as much as 170GB. 10-20 GB is pretty normal on the rest of Apple devices.
You downloaded movies until it told you it couldn't download anymore and system storage stayed the same?
How big were the movies? 3D 4K?
Content and app data indeed are the storage killers. Downloading a single sample song from the concert app on VP runs ~5 GB. No really something you can do on the fly.
Yes. I downloaded mostly 3D movies. They averaged 4-7GB.....so I had to download ALOT of them. But my "available storage" never increased as I downloaded.....meaning the storage taken up by "system data" never became available.