2024年6月25日 · The System Data and macOS is taking up over 100GB of my storage. I’ve tried several common solutions, but nothing seems to help. Here are the details: Steps I’ve Taken So Far: Checked Storage Usage: Opened "About This Mac" > "Storage" and noticed the "System Data" is taking up an unexpectedly large amount of space. Cleared Cache and ...

2016年1月15日 · I see you want to access the System Preferences on your Mac. To open them, simply click on the in the top left corner of your screen, and then select System Preferences. To open System Preferences, you can click the System Preferences icon in the Dock or choose Apple menu > System Preferences.

2022年2月14日 · This question pops up alot. Can't find anything to help. Left Top Apple Icon -> About This Mac -> Storage. Shows System Data at 325 GB. I've tried alot of things to reduce the storage on my HD. Gained some disk space back but the System Data has not budge at all. Where's what I've done: Removed some applications, including Xcode

2022年1月28日 · One of the most straightforward ways to clear system storage on your Mac is to delete invalid Time Machine backups. Time Machine also saves a local backup file in case external backups become inaccessible. Normally, macOS should delete Time Machine backups when your Mac is low on storage, but that doesn't always happen.

2025年1月21日 · System Data: Contains files not listed here. It includes system files like log files, caches, VM files, and runtime resources. Temporary files, fonts, app support files, and plug-ins are also included. You can’t manage this category’s contents. macOS manages them, and the size varies based on your Mac’s state.

2024年10月17日 · Exact same story here with Mac M1 Pro - Sequoia update exploded the system data and deleting items from documents seems to only shift data from there to system. I trashed 260GB of video from documents and saw a corresponding increase in system data. I don't use time machine. Other fixes suggested don't do anything.

2022年12月9日 · Sometimes your Mac builds up an unnecessary amount of System files due to a bug, but most of the time it’s a normal part of how the operating system works. However, you can follow the below methods to manually reduce system storage on your Mac: 1. Empty Trash. 2. Manage Time Machine Backup Snapshots. 3. Optimize your Storage. 4. Remove iOS ...

2022年8月18日 · To update your Mac, go to system preferences/ system settings> software update to see if there are updates available for your Mac. Important to know is that when your Mac supports the macOS version, it will also support all the updates for that version. So when your Mac can run Monterey (version 12) it can also run the newest release, 12.5.1.

2021年1月4日 · Got it! If you don't have enough storage space to update the Mac, the next step would be to try and manually manage the storage to free up additional space. In macOS Mojave, the System storage may include personal or third-party data that ended up there for some reason. The article below provides additional steps you can try to free up space.

2023年1月5日 · System Data showing over 600GB My Mac doesn't have a lot of free space- which makes no sense at all. I have almost everything on external hard drives. Today, in an effort to save space, I moved my iMovie library and my Final Cut Pro library to my externals as well (containing a total of 100GB), and it did not free up any space on my Mac.