These files can vary in type and can be anything from temporary files to macOS system files, plugins, extensions, archive (zip) files, and even documents like PDFs, docs, or Photoshop files.

To put it simply, macOS puts all files which don’t fall under the aforementioned categories inside the Other storage. It usually tends to be rather big, in some cases among the biggest space wasters on your Mac. You might see color-coded bars for Documents, Apps, Mail, Photos, and System, but there’s a sizeable chunk labeled Other, represented in gloomy dark gray. When you’re analyzing your Mac storage, macOS visually represents stuff that’s eating space up. Some of you might know this, most of you might not. Like someone lost at sea gasping for air, you’re desperately trying to find those extra megabytes and gigs (if you’re lucky) to get you going for another month or so. You know it gets serious the moment you realize that anything you want to delete in order to free up storage space is absolutely necessary to hold on to. A storage problem.Įmails, attachments, documents, pictures, backups, drafts, sheets, videos pile up really fast. I’m not lucky enough to have a work computer and a private computer - like I have two smartphones - and this is where it becomes a problem. That sadly doesn’t translate to my work from my private life. I would go for an 8GB iPhone if there was one, as I don’t have many apps and games installed, and I’m not a huge photo nerd.

I have a confession to make: I am really good at managing my storage space.

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