My MacBook pro-2021 1TB storage is almost full. When I inspected the storage overview I saw that the system data are taking up over 400 GB of space. Any suggestions on how to get the system data size back to normal?
Thanks
No snapshots, so that space is used for something else; it could be some caches or log files that have grown too much.
I’d try restarting in Safe Mode first.
This may clear some of the caches. Restart normally and see how much space you recovered.
After that, you can try this command in Terminal and post the output here:
du -d 1 ~/Library
I just done what have you said:
Hello again, there has been a slight change in the storage layout and system data was reduced to 212 GB of space. Any idea how to get it back to normal?
thanks
Safe mode reboot reduced the system data to 79GB! Which is great but still seems too much...
Terminal output:
First, make sure that the trash is empty.
Next, open Terminal, paste the following line, and tell us what output you get:
tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
400GB of system data on my Macbook Pro 2021
