We also run through various ways to free up space on your Mac in a separate article. In this article we will answer the questions: what is Other in Mac storage, can you delete Other storage, and should you delete Other? And, most crucially, we'll explain how you can delete other storage on Mac. You might be assuming the worst and preparing to remove some of your photos, videos, music and documents – but then you stumble upon an allocation of something called Other storage that is taking up numerous gigabytes on your drive and wonder whether you can free up space by deleting Other.
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Read: How to update to Monterey.įaced with the need to make space on your Mac you will no doubt be considering what you can delete. We fully expect that when macOS Monterey arrives on Monday 25 October there will be a multitude of Mac users looking for ways to get more space on their Mac so that they can install it. (In fact We had that exact problem - read Big Sur too big for 128GB Mac.) When it arrived in 2020 Big Sur was notorious for its hefty storage requirements - with some users faced with the challenge of freeing up almost 50GB of space in order to install it. So it's important to know what's using up the space on your disk and clear out redundant files that build up over time.Īnother reason you might need to free up space on your Mac is if you are attempting to install a new macOS update.
Your Mac can start to slow down and not perform as well when your storage is almost full, at which point you might see a "Your Startup Disk Is Full" warning. Storage space on your Mac is precious, especially if you have a 128GB, or even a 256GB SSD.
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