Clear System Data Storage on Your Mac - macOS Sonoma

Understand what system data is to remove all that clutter from your MacBook. In this video, I explain how to remove System Data from Your Mac. No software needed.
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[@nathaliealkazzi]

I couldn't understand why I had no storage left even tho I kept removing more than 60gb worth of files from my laptop but now I was able to remove 290GB !!!! This video just saved my life thank you so much

[@josuajosua7586]

I'M SO DAMN HAPPY TO FIND THIS VIDEO! CACHES IN MY MAC WAS OVER 300 GB, I wondered for almost a year why I have so much shit in my mac and couldn't find any answer or solution until I watch this. THANK YOU 💙

[@JuliaUtset]

Saved my life, cleared a lot of storage in 5min and all running properly atm, thanks a lot!!!

[@NotTryHardXShorts]

This video was a lifesaver! Just cleared over 200gb of storage, I guess it was all screen recordings!

[@Filosofos1]

What were you recording hmm 🤨🤨🤨

[@NotTryHardXShorts]

@@Filosofos1unnecessary zoom recording from college

[@Eric-qi9us]

fortunately mine was really small so I didn't really need to clean up but good to know about this and definitely will try this out when it gets bigger in the future. Excellent video!

[@smallduck1001001]

On most Apple US keyboards, going back to before the Mac, the backtick (unshifted) and tilde (shifted) key has been to the immediate left of the "1" key. There have been some exceptions where the Esc key took that spot beside the "1" instead, and the backtick/tilde key was either somewhere to the left of the space bar (weird!) or between the quote key and a narrower return key (the weirdest keyboards had the backtick/tilde key and the backslash/vertical bar key on either side of the space bar).

[@Fubeman]

Great video. Thanks! BTW, at 2:42, that symbol is called a Tilde. It is used in math symbols, programming as well as in Latin and Spanish languages, often used with the "eñe" letter (ñ).

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Thanks for this info, Fubeman! I didn't know it's used in programming and math.

[@007Yasir]

@@AMIRBENDABIyou can use it as well to navigate from one open document to another in any open app, Cmnd+~

[@bkvagnini]

@@AMIRBENDABIIt represents your profile home folder

[@jalupratama6405]

so many video that i watched about this problem. today i got my 270gb system data and i tried to search the solution until i found your video, Thanks a lot u just saved my storage💜

[@briansmith5903]

most useful mac storage video i've ever seen! Really appreciate the effort!

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Thanks for the nice comment, and I'm glad it was helpful : )

[@eclbirkeland]

This is amazing! I found that I have 250 GB of old After Effects versions still hanging around (while the cache for my current version of Ae, which I don’t use as much anymore, is 1.5 MB). Thank you! ❤

[@calahad]

Finally, someone! I've spent months on and off looking for a solution to this but nothing worked. This did the trick. My Adobe folder in the cache was 90 GB, which got freed up.

[@Shrekamind-zs6gl]

Oh my gosh! Thank you so much! I've had full storage for months, going to various places to try and fix this! Went to this video and found out I had over 300GB of screen recordings. Thank you!!

[@michaeljawahir275]

This video is what I’ve been looking for for years on how to clean up my “mail” in storage! Thank you so much

[@prateeksachdev546]

Thank you very much for your video. and it's very helpful, Amir

[@bmichael7242]

Thank you!!!!!!! I have been trying to figure this out for months!

[@StefanMarjoram]

Fantastic! So simple too. Thanks so much for getting me 200GB back. For me, it was old After Effects stuff - I don’t even have it installed any more.

[@HarryKwastaken]

Sir, you are an enlightened human being. I had over 600 gigs ONLY in Adobe. THANK YOU!!

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Glad I could help brother!

[@m44studios]

IKRR! this adobe had populated multi versions of AE of 300 gigs, creative cloud def has to clear its prev versns. was angry at mac os for a sec. videos like these is why ppl pay for net.

[@jobarden7964]

Thank you! my 300GB of system data has been driving me crazy. Really appreciate this, it's just cleaned up 270GB from After Effects cached files. Amazing!!!

[@SashaKrause-xg2bu]

Literally perfect, thank you!! This is what I needed.

[@user-mz3ej1nc7l]

this is AMAZING!!! thank you so much!

[@user-tr1hi9gl5e]

this is amazzing man! thanks a ton!

[@lunayang3520]

This was a life saver 😭😭😭😭 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING!!

[@roamingventures]

THANK YOU!! I needed this

[@IndiaFoodPost]

Thank you so much for educating us! Have a great day!

[@EduardoSilva-xg5gu]

Thanks for your amazing video. From Portugal with Love !

[@PATH2INSPIRATION]

I just did it while watching your video. I had 70+ gb of system data. After doing what you said, I'm down to 13gb. Thank you so much.

[@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee]

Ty so much can you do the same thing on Iphone and Ipad with the system data files taking up space? if so how?

[@fullsendco]

Been searching how to do this for an hour and this video saved me in 5 minutes. Thank you so much!

[@elenasantamaria9801]

Thank you so much! Super helpful.

[@abbyrodebaugh6634]

Thank you for making this video. I come back to your video every month on my work computer to clear the data!!

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome Abby!

[@darkheartcreative]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@arnabsur3766]

Awesome. It is the actual solution I wanted. Thanks for this video.

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome brother.

[@yeknommonkey]

Now how to do it on iPhone!

[@yashbshharma]

I AM GLAD I FOUND THIS VIDEO! Thank you! It works!

[@jay54733]

Thank you for these videos mate, but again what about if you don't get all the tabs you have like developer, how do you get the developer tab to show?

[@arax3]

THANK YOU! The only video that worked for FREE

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome : )

[@kinomediacompany]

Thank you for this video! It took me a couple of months to find this. I deleted 1,2TB cache files. I bought my MAC in 2017 and did not delete this files from 2017. BIG Thank you!

[@virusthree]

1.2 tb is crazy

[@antoniochaparro7362]

Thank uuu!!!! This workeed! I also had the exact same problem with Adobe, and it felt reassuring that it was your case too. :))

[@chantalyammine6158]

You're a LIFESAVER! THANK YOU!!!

[@RescueFit]

Thanks so much, my Adobe was relatively small however i found x2 Adobe Aero folders totalling 80GB of textures and mesh from 3D model use. All gone now thanks.

[@splutch49]

Thank you a lot for sharing this technique. It worked pretty well for me 👍

[@pr4275]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate you.

[@THR33ROSES]

Great video, thank you!

[@innasodri7082]

the only video that really helped me!thank you so much

[@movingamountain]

Wow, this helped soooo much. You just saved me a ton of headache.

[@orlandovives6441]

COMPLETE LIFE SAVER!!!! Thank you!!! I had almost 200GB of system Data and now I'm down to 46GB

[@arenlebrun1719]

Super helpful. Thanks!

[@janaavery]

Thank you!!!

[@ryuquiambao2950]

Thanks for this!!!

[@bayukilla]

thank you so much, no more laggy when I open photoshop, you're livesaver

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome 😊

[@Obe-qd1ir]

thanks dawg! this was helpful!

[@joshofthenorth]

You deserve a nobel prize for this. THANK YOU

[@MrMelodyCold]

Massive thanks!, also for everyone else you can go to your user folder, right click and select view library folder is that exact folder as I do not have the symbol in my keyboard distribution

[@midhat13]

I love you, thank you so much for this!

[@mitchellsmith4601]

The ~ (it’s called a tilde) denotes the user’s home folder, so ~/Library is the user’s home library, while /Library is the Mac’s Library folder, and is used by all users. There’s also /System/Library but it’s read-only for users, and as everything in System is now cryptographically signed by Apple, I suspect any modifications to anything in System will result in your Mac warning you on the next reboot that you need to reinstall macOS. You might be able to test this by logging-in as root in Terminal and renaming or deleting a folder inside System.

[@marcosahertian]

When I typed ~/Library, it won't open anything. Could someone help?

[@BJgrand]

Wow this is amazing. Thank you for this extremely helpful tutorial. I was literally scrambling to find apps and documents to delete because I was filled to capacity.

[@TaygaVL]

This was helpful bro PRECIATE YOU! 💯

[@AMIRBENDABI]

No problem ; )

[@oceanvideomauritius9474]

thanks for this video.. it really help

[@Thomas890s]

Thanks so much, this video really help me🎉

[@fatbens9524]

Lifesaver! Thank you my man 🙏

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Glad it helped!

[@MichaelWestcottFilms]

Legend! Thanks so much for sharing this great solution.

[@aultic]

Thanks man this was a life saver

[@janafotheringham619]

So my caches are only 2.2 GB but my system data is over 500 GB what do you suggest next…

[@athenaava461]

hey what did you do then?

[@totallymorpheus]

Me too, less than 2GB in Cashes, but 273GB system data. Any ideas?

[@achekholbeckal889]

delete the apps reinstall what you need, when reinstall all the previous data been cleared, housekeeping are a good practice on every sytem

[@Humaniol___2024]

I have only caches is 937 mb and system data is 503 gb but my ssd storage is only 500 gb how it possible, 😭 plz give me solution and my mac is out of storage.

[@alastairclarke]

Same. 2GB in cache. 304GB in system data. This video is garbage.

[@EddieTV100]

Great and very helpful. well done mate

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Glad you liked it : )

[@bloombird807]

Great video!! Thanks for sharing

[@CraterFilms]

Thanks for the support!!!

[@jojo3033]

Brother thanks so much omg after effects was taking 400gb of storage and I hardly use it

[@ameeralbunni2389]

Thanks for your video, when im typing ~/library its ONLY taking me to where you said that its not the place where we should go and delete , is there any way around this ?

[@v_officialgram]

Hi, nice video! Do you think would work even on MacOS Monterey?

[@РоманМорис]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@ct7483]

I had over 900GB of system data storage... lol... and yes, the culprit was Adobe since I use their softwares for my job. I'm so glad I found this, thank you so much! 🙏

[@user-pd5uh8tk2i]

Thanks it helps me.

[@PeterKae]

FINALLY, BROTHER!! Thank you so much for this! I've been searching for such a long time for that. The solution is explained so easily and simply. It's so satisfying to delete over 1TB of Adobe cache files...You're the best.

[@casphermanebo1918]

You save my precious time! Thank you so much! .

[@kdotblue5518]

Best video out on this issue. Thanks for making this video.

[@andresbruh1402]

You are the best, thank you so much

[@marceloyepezp]

Great Video, Thanks!!!

[@clawcraziness]

MY GOD I was about to get a new computer, thank you!

[@CapsLock33]

thank you!

[@CJHALLOCK]

This is what I've been looking for! I've been trying to figure this out for years... THANK YOU

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome brother!

[@chooming4411]

u saved my life!!! thank you!!!

[@miab.3633]

This worked perfectly! Thank you. I had almost 380 of system data mostly Adobe.

[@user-ws2np5rq1b]

Thanks! You are the best!

[@PhoenixReflex]

Thanks for the video. The sign is called "tilde".

[@rorychockman1052]

Awesome Video. Thank you!

[@iippu]

thank god this was excellent video. I had 170gb cache on after effects and haven't used that in months.

[@311mph]

THANKSSSSSS !!!!!! You made my Day !!!

[@charmeadows]

You rule. Thank you!

[@JayKerr]

Good video but how hard is it to look up the tilde character on your keyboard and spell "directory" instead of "trajectory"? When you are asking people to delete system info it helps to build trust with your audience by giving them accurate information.

[@JCamelo]

Lifesaver! Amazing video. Thanks 🙌

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Glad it helped/ Thanks for watching : )

[@RicoLajom]

this was so helpful! thank you so much!

[@worlduncover]

Thank you! I had almost 600GB of Data storage and after deleting adobe cache I now have space:)

[@user-rr1ov4kg4l]

Thank you dude

[@Superkickk]

Thank you So Much Bro 💯

[@joe_zupko]

Absolutely legendary, thanks a lot! Adobe had almost 300GB on my drive haha

[@CarlosLopez-sb1it]

omg!!! Thank you!!

[@AadilMehmood]

thanks alot

[@kathedits06]

thank you so much!

[@stigia14]

I love you! Thank you

[@danta2er]

Thank you!!

[@_michaelwinzer]

thanks mate 👍👍👍