![]() Labels are helpful. They take away the guesswork and make life easier. When looking at our ever-decreasing storage capacity on our Macs we see: Apps, Movies, Audio, Photos, and Backups. Everything is clear. Then we see Mac’s storage 'Other'. And we’re confused. And we’re annoyed. And we’re wondering why it’s taking up some much of our precious storage space. It’s not unusual for Mac computers to slow down over time when not properly maintained. To keep your Mac computer in an excellent condition, you must do a thorough cleanup once in a while, and this Caches are storages of temporary data used by the macOS operating system and applications. When Apple added its storage management feature to macOS Sierra, called Optimize Storage, it reorganized what 'other' storage is and where it's located on the Mac.Much of it has been divided out through other categories so it's easier to find and remove. To help you get that disk space back, let’s figure out what Other Storage is and how to remove Other from your Mac. What is Other on Mac Storage? Simply, Other storage on Mac consists of files that do not easily fall into the clearer category labels like 'Audio.' The types of 'Other' files would include: • Documents like PDF,.psd,.doc, etc. • macOS system and temporary files. • Cache files like user cache, browser cache, and system cache. • Disk images and archives like.zip and.dmg. • App plugins and extensions. • Everything else that doesn’t fit into the main macOS categories. How to delete Other Storage on Mac You can’t entirely get rid of Other on Mac but you can reduce how much storage space it takes up. We’re now going to look at each of the six types of Other files and show you how to clean up your Mac. We’re going to walk you through deleting useless documents, junk system files, system slowing cache files, old backups, and all sorts of other junk. Remove documents from Other Storage space You might not think that pure text documents take up a lot of space but you may be surprised at the size of some.pages and.csv files. And that’s before you start adding images, downloading ebooks, and creating big presentations. Soon your Other documents can start to get out of hand. To find and remove large and unneeded documents from Other Storage manually: • From your desktop press Command + F. • Click This Mac. • Click the first dropdown menu field and select Other. • From the Search Attributes window tick File Size and File Extension. • Now you can input different document file types (.pdf,.pages, etc.) and file sizes to find large documents. • Review the items and then delete as needed. Luckily, there’s a much quicker and more thorough way. By using a you are presented with a clear view of all the massive files occupying your Other space. To locate large hidden files in all folders with CleanMyMac: • Open CleanMyMac X and click on Large & Old Files tab. • Click big Scan button to start the search • Now, review the results broken down by different categories: archives, documents, movies etc. • Look through your files and delete the ones you no longer need. What’s great about this method is that you can sort the files by their size and thus free up space most effectively. And there’s a special category for Other files that don’t fit into either category. These files can be also moved to another folder/separate disk or could be removed securely. In addition to this, you can empty up a few more gigabytes taken up by Dropbox folder and your Trash. In the top right bar (where the time and language is displayed) you’ll find a small Mac icon that takes you to the CleanMyMac X’s Menu. • Click on CleanMyMac X Menu icon (within the upper bar) • Locate windows for Trash and Dropbox • Click Empty to instantly free up space You can and try it for free and see how it helps you slim down Other storage on Mac. Deleting your old files alone can recover you tons of space, but there are more space hoggers that fall under the Other data category. Clean up Other space of system and temporary files Every second your Mac is on, the macOS creates and piles up system files — logs, for example. At some point, the system needs these files, but they quickly become outdated and just sit there wasting your disk space. And guess what, they are in the Other Mac storage category, too. These files are mostly temporary but they never actually go away unless you do something about it. The difficulty is that Apple hasn’t made it easy to clear out system files. There’s a good reason for this – people often delete things they shouldn’t. So where do you even look for system files? To manually find where a majority of apps temporary files live navigate to ~/Users/User/Library/Application Support/. In this folder you will find your applications and some searching will reveal a lot of space being taken up. For example, your may have gigabytes worth of old iOS backups in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. You could delete these manually but a much safer and faster method is to use a specialist cleaning app like CleanMyMac X.
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