How To Figure Out What Is Taking Up Space On Your Mac (MacMost
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macmost.com/e-1958 When you Mac's hard drive is almost full, you can investigate and figure out what is using the space by simply using the Finder. There is no need to buy a third-party app to manage your hard drive. You start at the top and view all of your folders, digging down to see what is using the most space. Then you'll need to make some decisions about what to remove from yoru drive, being care to only remove files you don't need.
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so much for Mac being "user friendly" 😅. I dont know what I would do without these youtube videos
It’s user friendly when you have a 5 TB Storage
@@Gauchothedog lmao that's funny
Thank you so so much! This is exactly what I need. Your videos are always easy to understand and very comprehensive. Keep it up Gary!
GARY!!! I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT FOR 5 YEARS! and you just SOLVED IT in 8 minutes and 36 seconds (not counting all the minutes I re-wound and listened again to your instructions). Holy moly. Thanks dude!
This helped me discover that I had an app that I had enabled logging on that took up a huge chunk of storage. Thank you!
Thank you SO much for helping to identify the things taking up space in an easy to follow and understand way. It really helped clear my computer of useless files
Thank you 🙏 so much for this. It was SO helpful. Exactly what I needed and NO third party apps required. This deserves a sub. Keep up the great work!! 👍
You were a tremendous help for me to see where I can safely get rid of unwanted apps and downloads. I am getting ready to do a Time Machine backup and need to prune a lot of old documents etc. Thank you very much
This was so helpful. You did a wonderful job of teaching this. Thank you so much
Thank you so much . Fantastic and genuine content. Keep up great work!
Thank you so much for this!!! The only video or website to actually work. Also if you aren't getting the size to appear for all of your folders, select the folder you want and choose Get Info. For some reason it work for me. Deleted 350GB!!
Very helpful, thank you for creating this tutorial.
Thank you so much! This was so helpful!
Your the Man. This is the best video I found for this problem.
Very helpful. I thought I knew my way around these machines but it's great to learn some new tricks.
Thank you very much. It did help me to find out that Outlook was backing up a lot of attachements in the library folder and holding a lot of space.
Love your videos. Thank you Gary
I cannot even explain to tell you how helpful this was.
This is the best tutorial ever. Thanks so much!
You are my hero. This was a HUGE help. THANK YOU!!!
THIS WAS THE VIDEO THAT FINALLY HELPED ME CLEAR UP MY SPACE. Thanks alot for the help man
Thank you! Clear and easy to follow.
At last, someone who can help me! Thank you so much for this! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Yes! Keep it up Gary. I learn a lot from you.
This helped so much. Thank you.
Thank you so much, didn't know you have to put them into column view to see the size and i was braking my head to figure out why the finder doesn't categorize by size
You saved my day! Thank you so much!
Extremely helpful video if people are wondering on what is taking up space on their computer.
Thanks. I lost several hours on Google and TH-cam, and trying to find the files... before I found your video. It's so simple, and so useful. Thanks to you, I got A 50% of my MacBook Pro SSD space back!!! Apple should add a link to this video! With all the SCAM videos on this subject, your video should have more than a million viewers!
Sooo helpful. Thank you so much.
man thank you soooo much this was sooo helpful ty for your help dude
Amazing video! This was so helpful!
thank you - this is EXACTLY what I was looking for.
THANK YOU!!!! This is saving me so much trouble!!
Thank you so much! This helped me more than the 50 videos I watched before landing on this.
same!!! so much time being pitched third party paid apps.
thanks, this shed some light on my chaos.
Thank you much man!!!! I have so much work on my Mac I didn’t wanna lose or no how to properly store it but this helped out a ton wow!!!
this is so helpful tysm 😭😭
This was helpful, I have been searching on my Mac for month about what takes this huge amount of storage.
One more thing Gary. Before calculating folder sizes, is good to unhide files (Command+Shift+Dot)
This is seriously service to humanities. This is the only video that has not endorsed some shitty 3rd party app. Super Thanks Sir.
Brilliant - so much extra space in Iphotos and Parallels
Thanks! Helped fix my problem.
Amazing, you saved my day...
Thanks for these useful tips!
thank you so much for this!
Thank you so much! Best tip ever 👏
Great video. How do I stop the others categories from increasing. After i clean it out. If seem to be loading it's own files and taking up more space
wow thank you! Straight to the point!!
Thanks, best info yet!
very helpful! thank you!
thanks for this awesome video!!
Excellent solution
I've been waiting like 15 minutes to get the folder sizes to populate and only the system has shown up
Oh wow. Information in such an interesting way !!
This is so awesome!
Thank you so Much!!!
Thanks, this video helped a lot.
Great video! Thank you ❤
You saved me, thanks man!
Fantastic, opened pandora's box for me, cheers
Thank you soooooo much man you always save my live lol
THANK U SO MUCHH!!!!!!! THIS HELPS ME A LOT !!
NICE work thankyou....
THANK YOU THIS HELPED SO MUCH. I HAD MULTIPLES OF 8 AUDIO FILES TAKING UP OVER 1/12TH OF MY ENTIRE HARD DRIVE LMAO. I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG.
Thank you!
Excellent!
Thanks man!
thank u so much for this thats all i gotta say
THANK YOU
Thank you very much!!!
you just saved me i had 1gb left because my system storage was taking up everything and once i went into the hidden library folder i found that after effects was caching everything and doubling the size! thank you i now have 57gb!!!
the most useful tutorial for macos ever.
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Thank you..My problem is solved....Keep up the good work
Great video!
Thanks so much man, you're a goddamn HERO🥺
Thank you
Hey I have a doubt, i installed mac os montery on my catalina mac but there wasn't enough space so i had to delete it but somehow i didnt get the taken space back. I had 40 gb before installing and after deleting it i have 30 gb. How can i get that disk space back?
Very useful video! Gary, can I ask you an off topic question? I recently had a big move and couldn't take any of my old furniture. Is there a computer table or desk that you would recommend for my iMac 27" + MacBook Pro + other stuff? I am looking for something sturdy with the work surface not too far off the ground.
Sorry, I don't have any recommendations there. That is very subjective. People like different things and have different budgets. Shop around and find one that suits you.
Awesome thanks!!
really helpfull sir
THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME WOOOOOOOOOO
ahh this worked so well !!
You are a genius 💥
Thanks
thanks dude
thanks
thanks king
OMFG Thank you!!!!! I was wracking my brain.. I could not find out where all my space was and it was crash logs in the hidden library folder! 30gb. omg thank you!!!
I recently update to macOS Monterey and only have 5.5GB available of 121GB. I have optimised everything and don't have a lot of photos/documents but the system has 15GB. Any idea what I should do to resolve this issue?
you're number one!
Hi Gary. The option to select "show library folder" is, as far as I can see, not available on MAcOS (13.5). Could you help me to find it again?
Yes, it is. But perhaps you are not in your Home folder? In the Finder, use Go, Home Folder to make sure you are there. Then use Command+j to bring up the options and you'll see it there.
thank you som much!! you really helped me with it😅 also can you please make another vid which folders should i delete? like i really want to delete all these files its so frustrating but idk which one.. im scared ill delete an important files.. thank you :D
There are really no folders you should delete without knowing -- with deep knowledge -- what the folders are used for and what is in them. If you want to clean out space, stick to looking in your own Documents folder where you created your files and know what each one is.
How do I remove the built in mail app? I can check my email online. This app takes up so much space.
So many archived messages/attachments in the hidden library folder, cant thank you enough
it shows only 60GB but my mac is of 120GB where are my other GB AND i only have 6 GB storage left @macmostvideo help help help me plzzzz
Do you have an up to date video... I saw an App call Daisy Disk??? What is your thoughts. I have a lot of System Data that I trying to free up
This is my more recent one: th-cam.com/video/0-xtOFy8XfU/w-d-xo.html I don't bother with apps like that. Watch the new video and you'll see how to do it with macOS.
i still had Fortnite downloaded which took up to 70GB and I wouldn't have known without you, thank you
Thank you so much. found 22gigs of logs in the library folder inside users taken by zoom. reinstalled the app and got some space
Zoom logs? You should be able to clear those out without reinstalling.
it says that i only have no more than 40 gigs of space in the subfolders of my disk, but the disk itself says 78. i also have the hidden files shown. i'm not sure what's wrong.
Thanks very useful video. Cleaned up about 15Gb in one sitting. Follow up question. On 'About this mac' my storage shows about 60% of it being taken by 'other' files. While all my other data (apps, photos, movies, backups, audio) takes roughly 15%. This is a constant problem I have, can't figure out what those 'other' files are. I do'nt save tons of stuff on my computer but I do notice it gets full quite fast. Any other ideas for how to figure out what 'other' files are or anything else I can do to reduce amount of data I have stored?
Just follow what I am showing in the video. Start at the top level and get info on folders and see which ones are large and then keep digging down.
@@macmost What you show in the video does not work for me. I have a 2.15TB drive.1.8 TB are taken up by other. Im operating on just 170MB of free space. I have tried to access the Other using Omni disk Sweeper and also Clean My Mac which I have since deleted. Neither of these apps find the other and using your method doesn't either. It only find the Apps, Users, System files and Library which only add up to 700GB.
I opened a discussion thread on Apple Communities and a number of seemingly knowledgable people contributed to the discussion (link below). One suggestion was to use Find all Files and run a check on the drive using Etrecheck which I have done. None of this advice has solved my problem.
discussions.apple.com/thread/251524721