How to clean up OTHER storage

checkmate1984
New Contributor

Hi

 

OTHER storage is currently at 130GB (half the HD size)

 

But it's not clickable so not sure how to clean up. Is there a way to clean it up so we can recover some space?

 

thanks

 

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jamf-42
Valued Contributor II

this will clean out the cruft.. make sure you know what you are doing.. https://titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

AJPinto
Honored Contributor III

This is a million dollar question that drives many Mac users nuts. Apple has no good way built in to the OS to manage storage, much less files not owned by the user (ie other storage).

 

If you are on the device "sudo du -hd 1{path to directory}" can be used to list the volume of each sub directory. It can be used to help track down what is eating a lot of space. For example you start with "sudo du -hd 1/".

sdagley
Esteemed Contributor II

@checkmate1984 I'd recommend using OmniDiskSweeper to examine the contents of the drive and find things that could be removed: https://www.omnigroup.com/more