Look at the following path: Users>"YourUserName">Library>Application Support>Adobe>Common>Media Cache Files. The first time I tried, I went to the wrong source and got an earlier version, which didn't work on Sierra.) OmniDiskSweeper is a great tool for this, although there are other ways to fix it. Now that I've fixed it "System" is less than 20 Gb. On my newer Sierra Macbook the "System" storage was reporting as 186Gb on my 250Gb SSD.
#HOW TO CLEAN OUT MAC SYSTEM STORAGE MAC#
I don't think this will solve your iTunes issue, but I've had a similar issue on two Mac machines, both from the same source: Adobe cache files. So I've basically given up trying to understand why it's reporting in the way it is - the concern previously was of a bloated System file section, but that doesn't seem to be the case (and Finder proves that), so may be it will all get sorted in a future update!
Is it normal that "system" takes up 36 gb of storage? What does is contain? Can it be decreased?įrom my own experience I've found out that "iTunes" (yes, I seem to have that showing in the left side) only reports size for Apps and Podcasts - my Music which is nearly 70Gb looks as though it's reported under "System" (as you have found) which is currently at 83Gb - can't confirm because as you state it's greyed out, but all the other items on the left are far less in size so "System" seems the only place the machine has found to report my music content.įurthermore, if I use Finder and add my actual Music size (70Gb) to Macintosh HD System and Library (8Gb + 5Gb) it gives 83Gb (what the greyed out "System" is reporting). Why does the system use 150 GB of storage? There are at least two previous posts regarding the same "issue" (if in fact it is one!), but I'm not sure anyone has got to the bottom of it yet. The agent suggested reinstalling macOS Sierra, which I did, but it didn't solve the problem. Unfortunately Apple Support was not very helpful when I contacted them this afternoon. And I have no idea why it reports storage content accurately on my wife's Mac but not mine. I would like to be a huge fan of Optimized Storage, but this set-up of counting iTunes media as "system files" seems problematic. And I still don't have a separate iTunes entry. When I move things back into iTunes, they count again toward the System storage amount. (The Documents content jumped up dramatically because I copied my iTunes Library to the Desktop.) Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to establish the separate entry for iTunes in this window. Now the System files are down around 8 GB. After I did that, my Storage report looked like this: As an experiment, I copied then deleted my entire iTunes Library from within iTunes. I could reach the iTunes folder through Documents on the left side, but the contents of the folder were grayed out. I also noticed that, unlike on my wife's MacBook Pro, I had no individual listing for iTunes. In a nutshell: When I go to "About This Mac > Storage" the System files were taking up a whopping 90+ GB of my hard drive.
Just click on that icon to open the stack.I've encountered a problem on my brand new MacBook, but haven't been able to find a solution after working on it for most of today. Consider the Use Stacks feature to automatically stack-up files of the same type into a single icon.
Right-click (two-finger tap on a trackpad) any open space and choose Clean Up to get things arranged neatly, or Clean Up By to sort them as well. If your desktop is littered with icons, you should probably tidy things up a bit. But you may have old large files and documents, or apps that no longer even work on your version of macOS, that you can safely remove. Big library files (for apps like Lightroom or Final Cut Pro) are likely to show up here, and you might not want to mess with them. There are several sections here, like Large Files and Unsupported Apps, that are worth perusing. Then, click on Documents in the left tab. You can see all your installed applications here and sort them by size, easily deleting apps you haven’t used in ages. While you’re in the Storage Management app, click on the Applications tab in the left column. Take a look at your Applications and Documents
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