Upgrading macOS can prove quite a challenge if you don’t have the available storage space. This becomes noticeable when you’re trying to install a new macOS Ventura update or some other app which makes you wonder, where did all those GBs go? There is one simple method that might work, which is forcing the system to purge known unneeded files, it’s by creating very large files (via terminal/mkfile for example) to saturate the disk and force the system to flush the purgeable space.īesides this, only paid apps are available.One thing we don’t care about much is the amount of free storage space. Orphan files leftover from old software (safe to delete but hard to find)

(not safe to delete outside of the settings in each app) ICloud disk (not safe to delete but possible to right click and choose “remove download” on a per file basis, which is an overkill)Ĭonfiguration files such as Siri and Accessibility Voices, apps packages, etc. Mobile backups and updates (safe to delete) Time Machine backups (mostly safe to delete) Temporary files left over from installs, etc. That system data can (and will) contain the following: Oh, the weekly “System Data/Others takes so much disk space, what can I do” thread.Īt this point in time, seeing the constant huge amount of complaints for years, I can’t think this is accidental and will only believe this is on purpose to pay people being the larger more expensive configuration with more disk space.Īpple went with a while overhaul of the file system, then the disk app, yet they still can’t offer a simple solution to empty the cache or visualize the system data in more detail?

How to clean out disc space on mac