Clear System Data Storage on Your Mac

[@janandrzejewski3094]

My left ear enjoyed this video

[@reufalbarrak8187]

😂😂

[@SoupyMittens]

Yeah, its only coming out of the left speaker for me

[@vadimemelin2941]

Oh, so THERE IS the sound

[@TennisAloha]

Lol!

[@jayblacks333]

😂😂 Only had my left headphone on. Didn’t even realize the right wasn’t working.

[@popfan125]

Deleting all of my caches saved me 80 storage. Now instead of having over 10GB available, I now have nearly 105GB available on my MacBook Air M1! Many of them date back to the day I had this MacBook.

[@HoramaSAJ]

my right ear: 😇 my left ear: 💀

[@Claire_Multipassion_Creative]

This is funny cuz I just had surgery on left ear a few days ago and also very bogged up MacBook 😂

[@natesagradanew]

I love that you said Guitar Hero instead of Garage Band

[@reflections_with_Shay]

But how do you get to that manage screen?

[@brendaNhubbard07]

My same question? 😵‍💫

[@dumpy4289]

@@brendaNhubbard07 right click on macintoshHD and choose manage storage

[@corbincox]

I've been scouring the internet. This is the only video that actually got to the bottom of the "system files" issue. THANK YOU. just saved 459GB.

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Glad it was helpful, brother.

[@araavedianfilms]

The adobe after effects was taking 250 gigs! im so grateful for this video. Thank you so much.

[@senaleevisal7441]

This is the solution I have been looking for for almost 2 years and this works for me.

[@thisisVC]

This was exactly the solution I needed! After Effects was taking up almost 400gb of my storage. Thanks so much for creating a straightforward & easy to understand video 😊

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're most welcome, my friend.

[@dddreu]

you can just purge it to clear the caches

[@StudioGoldsmith]

Lol, mine was too. I had to go in the folders and I made a guess that it's probably my DAW or some video software. Damnnnn, wtf Adobe

[@Krivplayzz]

i thought this would be just some random tutorial that didn't work, but this worked like really well. I went from having 30 gb left to now 87.16 GB left. Thank you SO MUCH!

[@TabletopTom]

Absolute lifesaver - great explanation and you've helped me free up 828GB on a 1TB Macbook Pro! 🙏

[@RDDall]

This is SUPER helpful. My system data is taking up a ridiculous amount of storage!

[@GregJohnson-g1i]

The ~ symbol is a diacritical symbol that makes the pronunciation of similar or equal words sound the same when spoken. It is used a lot in Portuguese and some other languages. To hear the difference, type the word não (copy it if you do not know how to type it) and nao in Google Translate, then hit the speaker icon, and you will hear the difference.

[@romeben4681]

You save me months of frustration!!! I was looking everywhere how to delete that data stuff.

[@JustBlueFish]

My left ear enjoyed this video.

[@AMIRBENDABI]

LOL 😂. I'm sorry. It will never happen again.

[@YampoGTAG]

I got a MacKeeper and is deleted all my junk! Thank you so much! I can finally download the next update!

[@tomeckaris]

Thanks a lot buddy. My system data were 600 GB, so u saved my life.

[@truffles1111]

I got back ~325 GB of space!!! I found the problem in the ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common files. One of several files there was the culprit! Thank you so much!

[@stellascott4584]

Surgical precision in that guidance to liberate my Mac from pure junk! 🙏🏽

[@jordan.n.turner]

There's no developer tab on my settings. Any idea how to get to it outside of this spot?

[@sveva-patrizi]

hi i can't find the developer part on my mac pro?

[@djboogieboy]

On my macbook pro it wont let me access that greyed out other items. Under recommendations the other is greyed out and i cant figure out how to get to it.

[@luizzy_g]

got rid of almost 200gb that was stored in an After Effects folder. Thank you so much!!

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Anytime brother.

[@Jay_Grimes]

How did you even have 200 on your phone😭

[@luizzy_g]

@@Jay_Grimes not my phone, my Mac desktop. its a 1TB

[@Jay_Grimes]

@@luizzy_g yeah I just realized it when I played the rest of the video😭

[@abrahamdebasu2751]

But does it affect your After Effect? Please Let me know!

[@timothyspreciousmoments]

Thanks for the tutorial. I free up 30gb just by trashing the caches.

[@kmart2134]

just freed up 160 gb of space. thank you 🙏🏽 knew oi should've checked KZbin before google. all articles are trying to sell a product

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome, my friend : )

[@jeffilmedit]

this has been the best video ive watched so far on this thank you bro!

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Thanks for watching, brother.

[@davidbriseno910]

Thanks for this nice, clean video. Straight to the pint. Helped a user clearing up over 80GB. I deleted all the cache items, hopefully this does not screw with anything.

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're most welcome : )

[@dboproductions2853]

Dude, I still have over 200gb of system data after all your suggestions 😢 -- what else can I do?

[@Vishal.K08]

bro same I need help

[@fated_child9889]

what if i have an m2 macbook with the updated settings window

[@happypoketsu]

thanks to you with the cache method I went from 116 GB to 68 GB!

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Great!

[@emilianofernandezcervantes4042]

You are great!! Thank you so much. The only solution I found before your video was to download 3rd pary software for clearing my disk.

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You are welcome : )

[@colinskey6072]

great vid!! explained everything clearly and helped so much!! thank you!

[@ArchyDolder]

Thank you for a helpful video, but the "symbol" mentioned at about 06:12 is too small to see, even in full screen mode, and the only key near the shift key on the left side of my keyboard is the letter "Z" - maybe our keyboards are different? Could you please put the symbol in the description area? It would be very helpful, and I'd be most grateful, thank you.

[@simonlinke1]

The symbol is a Tilda. ~

[@GabiBliss]

There is no "manage" button on macbook air.

[@KEEVVY]

if you go to storage the bigest app is going to be chrome another is going to be stuff that you don't use like imovie and garageband, removing this 3 apps already save 10gb, now if you know to acces library folder you will have temp file like caches that could be over 3gb, if you are a editor go to home/movies you could find temp final cut like untitled or resolve, another thing is that Music app copy files in music media folder music/prefences/files uncheck automaticly copy files to media music

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Very true. Thanks for this info!

[@VikasKR-f2d]

what? I have only 9gb left in M1 but now after watching this video 128 gb OMG

[@AndreasThaulow]

The "manage" option is not htere in ventura. Do you know how to get the list from ca. 1.30 on ventura?

[@PraneetTulshyan]

thanks for this. what about group containers in the library?

[@LaziestBassist]

This would be helpful if I had any of these buttons...

[@RDDall]

Hey Amir, I found a folder ~/Library/Caches/FNFRangeCache in the System data on my Mac. What is it? It seems to have a lot of data. Can I clear its cache?

[@Mike-bk6uk]

If you use Dropbox instead of iCloud, will Dropbox also create cache of my programs

[@Omii_3000]

5:23 Bro really just called Garage Band "Guitar Hero" 💀💀💀

[@AMIRBENDABI]

LOL 🤣

[@Omii_3000]

@@AMIRBENDABIthanks for the video btw, it was actually helpful :)

[@Daseedits]

could I clear the after effects cache even if I still use it?

[@jun6015]

thanks bro, you save my tiny ssd

[@sudhakarans4055]

Thank you so much dude! I was having 88 GB of data in system data and It went to 18 GB,

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're most welcome, brother.

[@InTeCredo]

I wish Apple would fix the biggest issue with iOS devices: system data (light grey bar on the bar), especially the devices with small storage (32 or 64 GB). The system data doesn't show anything so we could find out which app is taking up so much storage. And clear it up one way or other. I sometimes have to resort to the "Hail Mary" procedure of connecting iOS device to Mac computer: backing the device up, resetting the iOS device, then restoring it from the back-up. It does take lot of time and require that I configure some apps again and set up the Apple Pay and such.

[@tuworlds]

thanks for this video really helped a lot. i have a question i don't really sync much data apart from notes in icloud by using the documents folder. i have nothing on my desktop. what i do is create other folders in icloud like images, mp3, apps and so forth then dump data that i want to store in those folders. am i right in thinking that by doing it that way im using icloud as a backup system and the question is will those folders be some how synced to my mac? if the answer is yes then i might as well cancel my icloud storage account and buy an external drive because what is the point having 200gig icloud for it to be still storing data locally specially if im not using the official sync folders thanks again for a great video

[@Show-bites]

How do I make the developer show up in my list? I don't have that one in my finder showing

[@alixvillanueva]

me neither... anyone have any tips?

[@ashfaqqureshi43275]

Thanks, bro it also works in macOS "Ventura".

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're most welcome brother.

[@Aroxy22]

Thank you. Helped me free 450 GB from my Mac

[@AMIRBENDABI]

450GB!! That's a load of junk! I'm glad it helped you get rid of that waste!!

[@SimplyKharil]

You are a lifesaver! Thanks!!!!

[@Thebrandonjon]

This helped so much!!! I thought I had a virus 😭🥰

[@SUNNYBEACHINVEST]

Thank you for your help. The video help me, but you really need to zoom, I find very hard to see what you are doing.

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Noted! I will definitely make sure to zoom into the small details next time. Thanks for this feedback!

[@wooshinwev4329]

Thank you i literally cleared 70 GB from this after running off of 60mb for idk how long

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome : )

[@mondotv4216]

You can choose not to store iCloud files locally. If you enable "Desktop & Documents" folder for iCloud, the files from these two folders will be moved to iCloud Drive, and "Optimise Storage" will automatically remove older files, that have not been used in a long time, if free storage is needed. To ensure, that the documents you want to keep mirrored locally, you can click the download arrow to force a download. To remove more local copies for files you do not need any longer locally, ctrl-click the file or folder and use the command "Remove Download". This way you can be in control of what is mirrored locally and what is only in iCloud.

[@elojodelterror]

Very helpful, but only eliminated 23 GB of Cache, the System Data stills 131 GB, and no more Cache to delete, any suggestions?

[@barterleaf]

The video is good, but still doesn't solve the problem. I have 64gb of system data and it's not in cache, not in icloud. Seems like apple just wastes your storage for nothing to push you to buy more storage.

[@giogio9854]

Reduce clutter doesn't appear in my macOS, anyone know why? I use Ventura 13.4 on a MB M1 Pro. Thanks for any help in advance.

[@marcojimenez117]

just the video that I was looking for thank you!

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Glad I could help!

[@Panther-]

Thank you so much, my After effects cache was 228gb smh thanks so much,I tried importing in some new picture into lightoom and I couldn't so was wondering what on earth is going on.

[@blackgoat8950]

What if the size of the caches doesn't match the size of system data? Like i've got 70GB in system data and only few MB in caches

[@HowieD1975]

It would be nice to solve this for the mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The 2 areas that drive me crazy are Documents & Data and Other. I would love to know how I could look in to those. I only store music on my device and when I delete it to do a clean install of the OS the Documents & Data and Other do not change in size.

[@EricGreniervideo]

I cant figure out how in the first few seconds how you get to the screen where you click on "manage"

[@nathanpedroni9875]

Thanks a lot! You explained very well and this video was really helpful :)

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Glad it was helpful!

[@brendaNhubbard07]

How do you get to manage screen!? 😩

[@CJ-gp9yh]

Ventura 13.2 (22D49) does not have a hard disk manage button!

[@lamareskin]

OMG DUDE thankss after effects was taking 100gb??!? And i was so confused as to why my system data was 117gb

[@manasetuionetoa3537]

this was sooooo helpful:)

[@codygakpoEXE]

But my storage being used up is my containers and I'm not sure which of the stuff is important or not

[@safetyhomeloans950]

the video actually start on minute 5:57....thanks Amir, but you could have saved us all almost 6 minutes of our time...

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Thanks for this feedback. I will definitely consider it next time

[@46_ansh_sakihra]

wait if you have macos sonama how do you find manage system storage ?

[@AMIRBENDABI]

I will make a video about that very soon

[@aneuno2]

You didnt explain how to get rid of the OTHER storage

[@capt.mondaybaker3857]

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[@tenkik]

Subscribed!!!

[@ltzLastGuestAnimatez]

Best option I used, thanks a lot!

[@Joe-lb8qn]

There is no "manage"button on my Mac(I'm on ventura) and i cant find where it went.

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Seems like the Ventura update might have changed some settings. It's always a bit tricky when things get moved around after an update. You might want to check the System Preferences or Apple support for guidance. Hope you find it soon!

[@AjivJabar]

how do I get the manage screen

[@carlojeancastillo6957]

yo where r u all along thx abt this vid

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome brother.

[@AdisCengic]

I have 202 GB but but it is not chache and not show in libray any sugest

[@plnmnc]

help why did the photos and photobook wont show up in my system anymore??? 😭

[@toine2121]

I can't find the manage option from the secons part

[@goldenant9450]

when i go to about this mac, i dont see any options. i can go into settings, storage, and click manage - and i get a break down of storage allocated to applications, documents, etc. but it is different. it's not as actionable as the finder looking window you used for your demonstration. and what it shows in settings-storage is different than when I open in finder (finder files sizes are larger)

[@AMIRBENDABI]

I understand your frustration. It seems like the options and interface might vary depending on the version of macOS you are using. Have you tried updating your system to see if it brings any changes?

[@akhilnadagani1903]

Thank you, it helped me a lot

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome!

[@conservativemuslim19]

Life saver! May Allah bless you Amir!

[@darkrainbows7602]

this doesn't really help much, the most struggle me and many others have is the "system data" section which takes up to usually more than 60% of your total storage, and u can't even click on to it in the first place

[@kdreamscosmos4279]

Is there any way to disable it?

[@allovertheplaceoriginals]

Damn Man. Thankyou so much!

[@MoJoeFriday]

Great help! Thank you.

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome!

[@mindsetcambodia1]

Thank you so much ❤

[@dipsrocx4028]

My left ear is very happy.

[@PNWTone]

Thank you so very much.

[@AMIRBENDABI]

Any time!

[@williamfanning555]

can you do an update? there storage interface changed ... no more "manage" button

[@AMIRBENDABI]

True. I will definitely make an update. Thanks for the request, William : )

[@nooyug-tu7dz]

ohmygod, thanks man

[@AMIRBENDABI]

You're welcome brother.

[@Autism_Aim]

What’s this thing called macOs

[@CliffFennell]

Great job!

[@DJGerardJones]

Thank you!

[@introscoot]

WHat is the devloper option is not there?

[@PaulM_aka_4c21]

Turn on Optimise Storage to reduce iCloud local storage. Simples.

[@TheOtherNEO]

Also, check if connection logging is active in Mail. Fixed that for someone recently who had 400GB in log files.

[@joelibretti]

May I ask how to do this? TY

[@Havva-p5u]

Man you are gonna make me safe 350GB!!!!!!!!!! Is it gonna screw up anything of my files?