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![]() Lost Harddrive Space? Where is my space going? I don’t know what is taking up my hard drive, please help. I have tons of “Other,” how do I delete it? My hard drive is full and I can’t find what is using it. We see these questions all the time on the forums. People get especially concerned when they open their System Profiler, and see “Other” taking up so much of the drive. What is “Other”? Other is anything that isn’t what is defined. Other is files that aren’t audio, movies, apps, backups, …Read More → Read more at the Mac-Forums Blog Last edited by vansmith; 04-08-2012 at 09:18 PM. |
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Thanks Stretch for writing this blog post up! I know many are confused about the "other" section.
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I tried 2 different ways of splitting my data until I found something I liked and didn't slow down the performance of the SSD.
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Wow, I seem to have a lot of "other" (53GB). I'm betting that a good portion of that is my collection of VMs and the 7GB of content I'm downloading right now for StarCraft 2.
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