Clear System Data Storage on Your Mac - macOS Sonoma
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ย. 2023
- Understand what system data is to remove all that clutter from your MacBook. In this video, I explain how to remove System Data from Your Mac. No software needed.
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This video was a lifesaver! Just cleared over 200gb of storage, I guess it was all screen recordings!
I'M SO DAMN HAPPY TO FIND THIS VIDEO! CACHES IN MY MAC WAS OVER 300 GB, I wondered for almost a year why I have so much shit in my mac and couldn't find any answer or solution until I watch this. THANK YOU 💙
fortunately mine was really small so I didn't really need to clean up but good to know about this and definitely will try this out when it gets bigger in the future. Excellent video!
Saved my life, cleared a lot of storage in 5min and all running properly atm, thanks a lot!!!
This is amazing! I found that I have 250 GB of old After Effects versions still hanging around (while the cache for my current version of Ae, which I don’t use as much anymore, is 1.5 MB). Thank you! ❤
On most Apple US keyboards, going back to before the Mac, the backtick (unshifted) and tilde (shifted) key has been to the immediate left of the "1" key.
There have been some exceptions where the Esc key took that spot beside the "1" instead, and the backtick/tilde key was either somewhere to the left of the space bar (weird!) or between the quote key and a narrower return key (the weirdest keyboards had the backtick/tilde key and the backslash/vertical bar key on either side of the space bar).
You deserve a nobel prize for this. THANK YOU
I couldn't understand why I had no storage left even tho I kept removing more than 60gb worth of files from my laptop but now I was able to remove 290GB !!!! This video just saved my life thank you so much
so many video that i watched about this problem. today i got my 270gb system data and i tried to search the solution until i found your video, Thanks a lot u just saved my storage💜
Great video. Thanks! BTW, at 2:42, that symbol is called a Tilde. It is used in math symbols, programming as well as in Latin and Spanish languages, often used with the "eñe" letter (ñ).
Thanks for this info, Fubeman! I didn't know it's used in programming and math.
@@AMIRBENDABIyou can use it as well to navigate from one open document to another in any open app, Cmnd+~
@@AMIRBENDABIIt represents your profile home folder
Fantastic! So simple too. Thanks so much for getting me 200GB back. For me, it was old After Effects stuff - I don’t even have it installed any more.
Finally, someone! I've spent months on and off looking for a solution to this but nothing worked. This did the trick. My Adobe folder in the cache was 90 GB, which got freed up.
Thank you! my 300GB of system data has been driving me crazy. Really appreciate this, it's just cleaned up 270GB from After Effects cached files. Amazing!!!
Thank you for this video! It took me a couple of months to find this. I deleted 1,2TB cache files. I bought my MAC in 2017 and did not delete this files from 2017.
BIG Thank you!
Thanks for the support!!!
Thank you so much! Super helpful.
Sir, you are an enlightened human being. I had over 600 gigs ONLY in Adobe. THANK YOU!!
Glad I could help brother!
IKRR! this adobe had populated multi versions of AE of 300 gigs, creative cloud def has to clear its prev versns. was angry at mac os for a sec. videos like these is why ppl pay for net.
most useful mac storage video i've ever seen! Really appreciate the effort!
Thanks for the nice comment, and I'm glad it was helpful : )
Thanks so much, my Adobe was relatively small however i found x2 Adobe Aero folders totalling 80GB of textures and mesh from 3D model use. All gone now thanks.
Legend! Thanks so much for sharing this great solution.
this is amazzing man! thanks a ton!
THANK YOU!! I needed this
This worked perfectly! Thank you. I had almost 380 of system data mostly Adobe.
this is AMAZING!!! thank you so much!
Thank you very much for your video. and it's very helpful, Amir
Thanks so much, this video really help me🎉
Thank you!!!!!!! I have been trying to figure this out for months!
This was a life saver 😭😭😭😭 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING!!
Massive thanks!, also for everyone else you can go to your user folder, right click and select view library folder is that exact folder as I do not have the symbol in my keyboard distribution
THANK YOU!
Ty so much can you do the same thing on Iphone and Ipad with the system data files taking up space? if so how?
My system data was over 900GB and taking up all of my storage THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
thank you so much!
Thank you! I had almost 600GB of Data storage and after deleting adobe cache I now have space:)
Mine was all in After Effects Cache files, like 350GB of it, crazy, thanks for this video
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Thanks you so much, now, I feel i get new mac right now for clear 250gb on my mac
Thanks for the video. The sign is called "tilde".
Thank you for these videos mate, but again what about if you don't get all the tabs you have like developer, how do you get the developer tab to show?
omg!!! Thank you!!
Thanks for your amazing video.
From Portugal with Love !
You're a LIFESAVER! THANK YOU!!!
Thank you a lot for sharing this technique. It worked pretty well for me 👍
This video is what I’ve been looking for for years on how to clean up my “mail” in storage! Thank you so much
Thanks for this!!!
Amazing! Thank you!
Thank you so much. I really appreciate you.
Thank you!!
Brother thanks so much omg after effects was taking 400gb of storage and I hardly use it
Awesome. It is the actual solution I wanted. Thanks for this video.
You're welcome brother.
Now how to do it on iPhone!
thank you so much, no more laggy when I open photoshop, you're livesaver
You're welcome 😊
Thank you for making this video. I come back to your video every month on my work computer to clear the data!!
You're welcome Abby!
u made my life easy bro tyty
Thanks sir!
Thank you So Much Bro 💯
The ~ (it’s called a tilde) denotes the user’s home folder, so ~/Library is the user’s home library, while /Library is the Mac’s Library folder, and is used by all users. There’s also /System/Library but it’s read-only for users, and as everything in System is now cryptographically signed by Apple, I suspect any modifications to anything in System will result in your Mac warning you on the next reboot that you need to reinstall macOS. You might be able to test this by logging-in as root in Terminal and renaming or deleting a folder inside System.
I had over 900GB of system data storage... lol... and yes, the culprit was Adobe since I use their softwares for my job. I'm so glad I found this, thank you so much! 🙏
This is what I've been looking for! I've been trying to figure this out for years... THANK YOU
You're welcome brother!
THANK YOU! The only video that worked for FREE
You're welcome : )
Wow, this helped soooo much. You just saved me a ton of headache.
Absolutely legendary, thanks a lot!
Adobe had almost 300GB on my drive haha
baraakallahu fikum.. it works alhamdulillah masya Allah
this tutorial saved my MacBook
Hi, nice video! Do you think would work even on MacOS Monterey?
Thank you so much! Perfectly explained, I cleared 400GB of Adobe stuff that didnt even know why and for what was there..
You're welcome brother : )
Lifesaver! Thank you my man 🙏
Glad it helped!
This was helpful bro PRECIATE YOU! 💯
No problem ; )
thank you friend
Bro thanks a lot! But Any disadvantages of doing this ?
Thanks to your video I deleted 400GB of System Data! Thank you so much!
Glad I could help : )
You are the best, thank you so much
thank you , great solution
Glad it helped : )
Thanks it helps me.
Thank you so much, you saved me! -560 GB!
Mine had over 640gb.. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the video. where do i type the~/library code in finder window?
Thank you!!!
Thanks for your video, when im typing ~/library its ONLY taking me to where you said that its not the place where we should go and delete , is there any way around this ?
Hey boss. Thanks!
Also, you had it right the first time. It’s “Directory”, not “Trajectory.”
Thanks for the video.
I am going to create a script using your method to make the process a little easier. Perhaps create the Mac version of a chron job to do it every so often automatically.
you saved my life man! I just found out my 1tb internal drive, adobe was taking up 900gigs!!!!!
Great video, especially for Adobe users. If this video didn't help, the folder you are most likely looking for is cloudkit. If you have iCloud turned on for more than one device it will constantly cache and add all files to all devices. DO NOT DELETE items in iCloud without backing them up on a separate drive. Go slow with all of this even though it is very frustrating. Also, to see the size of the folders make sure to view in list mode and that you have your calculate size turned on. Final thing I'll add, for Final Cut Pro X users, rendered files will take up a ton of space, make sure you are starting a new library each time you make a video so you can delete the rendered files at the end if needed.
Lifesaver! Amazing video. Thanks 🙌
Glad it helped/ Thanks for watching : )
You're the best!
Hey, my Mac's storage shows 48GB of System Data, but I only found 330MB in the Caches folder. How do I remove it?
I am on Sonoma 14.3.
I'd like to know this also, I have a whopping 180GB of system data and when Ilook in Caches there's virtually nothing there to delete. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
@@kimboclara1 some apps store data in application support etc and I saw that this was counted as system data !!!!
@@kimboclara1 Yeah, same. My entire HD is now full of 'system data' making the mac virtually unusable but I can't find it anywhere on the disk itself
@@ThatOtherMikeyGuy it’s so frustrating.
@@kimboclara1 If it helps, I found the main villain on my Mac - a folder called "iCloud Archive" which was over 200GB on my HD. The hard part was making it visible. I have no idea how I managed it, it was invisible when I first started looking and at some stage it just suddenly showed up!
thank you very much
thank you!
Thank uuu!!!! This workeed! I also had the exact same problem with Adobe, and it felt reassuring that it was your case too. :))
You rule. Thank you!
Great Video, Thanks!!!
life saver!!
GENIUS!
After deleting my After Effect caches I saved 599GB of storage Thank you so much for this video!
Great and very helpful. well done mate
Glad you liked it : )
A great help!
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Thanks for the video. I'm hoping that clearing my cache will keep After Effects from crashing, since I've tried everything else.
merci !!
Hi Amir and thanks to share us this great information! I've a question: on my MacBook air I've an annoying folder called "Other", it counts 100gb...I've followed many videos but everyone tell me to buy software. I'd like to run the problem and erase gb with no pay. How can I solve that problem?! Thanks!
Thank you! this worked
You're welcome : )
Thank you… my question is the same as somebody else is on here, what if you don’t have Adobe but still a building up system data, can you delete them all?