FREE up Space and System Storage on Your Mac in 2023 (WITHOUT Clean my Mac)

[@marteerens]

I had so much struggles because something on my laptop was taking up a whole lot of space. Thanks to you I found it and I deleted one folder taking up 360GB. Thanks a lot!

[@AllenRowell]

Very helpful. I went from 30 GB available storage to over 300 GB following your instructions. Thanks a million!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

I’m really happy to hear that 👍 it’s great my video helped you clear some storage 💻

[@williamkepraios986]

I want to give you 10 stars if I could. I can not believe it. I have listened to several other you tube presentations on this subject and reduced some of my stored. No one mentioned the system data library. It was using 75% of my storage. Even an apple support person did not take me there when I talked with them. From your video I went there and found in “Screen Recording” 3 recordings I did not know I created using my “Screenshot” app. A total of 114 GB. I did not need them and trashed them. Now my system library is down to 16% of my storage. Thank you so much!

[@heathermartin4015]

I went through so many other videos and web pages trying to figure out what to do since I had 150 GB of system data on my computer. No website or other videos helped until yours, as it turns out I had a total of 120 GB of cache files. Thank you so so much I can finally use Photoshop again

[@MatthewLi-p5o]

bro I JUST WANT TO SAY THIS CLEARNED my MAC 500GB HOLY SHI I AM SO HAPPY, I OWE U LOADS THANK YOU ONE BYTE ACADEMY!

[@LauroreeAl]

Thank you for taking the time to do this! Cleared over 100GB in my app support folder 🙏

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Awesome! I’m happy in worked for you 👍

[@DaveTheSmileyFace]

Same

[@kwabenaagyei-boahene7659]

the best storage reduction hack. literally got my space back. 3gb available to 155gb available. splendid. Thank you so much!!!!

[@zeb8387]

I have cleared 175 Gb from my mac, turns out It was a video that was THREE days long that was occuping so much space.

[@gahbryl6577]

Thank you!! Clearing my caches freed about 25+ GB!!🔥🔥

[@user-yi8bg8xr1u]

i just bought my first macbook and have been comparing some cleaning apps to decide on what to get (though i likely don’t need it yet 😂). thank god i saw your video before purchasing any of those! as a newbie in the mac world, i truly appreciate your content! speaking of, can you also do one featuring the apps you yourself use? probably for productivity, security (like vpn if you use), additional optimization, and other apps you deem helpful. hope you can consider it hehe looking forward to your next uploads 😄

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Hello, I am really happy I saved you some trouble with these apps. That's great you enjoy the content and I will do my best to bring some useful tips in the next videos as well. I will also consider making video about apps I like to use, once I have some more time :) Thank you for your positive comment and wish you a great day! 👨🏼‍💻🙏

[@geraldlee5982]

This was valuable to not only clean up Mac, but the short cut keys was great as well.

[@hedark1135]

wow... i had WOW classic caches on my computer from 2019. it displayed as not using any space, but I deleted it anyway, got back 65GB of space. thanks!

[@courtneyc314]

WOW, no joke I went from 2GB of free space to 35GB from following these steps!!! I've had my laptop for 10ish years and have never done anything like this! Feels like new. Thank you!!!!!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Great to hear! Thank you for your positive comment, I am happy my video helped you 👨🏼‍💻

[@garylaycock]

Thankyou so much for these tips. My MacBook Pro is sorted now. I was getting frustrated trying to figure out where all my storage had gone. I gave up with the Apple support in the end and searched the problem myself on KZbin. Big cheers

[@alanaknight]

Such a great video! Thank you! I found a 300GB Screen Recording saved in my Library. Deleted that along with the Google Chrome cache, did a restart and now I'm stoked that my storage is back to normal. Also, learned how to navigate around Finder much better.

[@lisika7386]

Hello! This video was really helpful for me as to I was not able to find "manage" options mentioned in a lot of videos. The steps were easy to follow. Thank you.🙏

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

I’m really happy you find the video useful 👍 thank you for your positive comment 🙏👨🏼‍💻

[@artinflow]

Mate this was the best - I just had my cloud fill my cache with 128gb of shit from my old Mac to my brand new Mac 1 day old and this just saved me massively!!!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Awesome! I’m really happy it helped 👍👨🏼‍💻

[@NatureGloseScience]

Thank you so much for helping me clean off my MacBook Air. It was running sooo slow after 3 years. I'll save this video so that I can stay on top of keeping my Mac clean all of the time. Thank you again! Great video!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Thank you very much for your positive comment 🙏 I’m really happy that you find it useful and it helped you clean your Mac storage. 👨🏼‍💻

[@naturegloadventures]

@@OneByteAcademyOfficial Yes, my Mac hasn't been this clean since the day I received it new!

[@Novalty_]

thank you for the consice video. Turns out there was over 40 GB in my steam cache and over 30 GB in my after effects cach. This helped me a lot!

[@kinopiko01]

Deleting the application support is the best thing I did following your tutorial. So thanks so much bro

[@ethanhanzelart]

Good stuff. Your tips freed up 300 GB of storage on my machine.

[@leinad907]

i watched the entire video and i freed up more than half of my 128gb SSD thank you so much

[@MindMashQuiz]

Thanks alot! been searching how to clear my cloud for a whole day. Saved me

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Glad I could help! I appreciate your positive comment 👨🏼‍💻

[@PuffLance]

Dude this vid is a lifesaver, thank u for sharing all this with the web

[@andyabajo]

Yes, technically you can do all of this and clean your Mac this way. However, the ease of use that you'll get coming from using these programs instead of spending hours and hours trying to fiddle with folders, "is it safe to delete or not" scenario and whatnot. I personally used Clean My Mac and its basically a must to install on every mac.

[@anjelchughh]

Thanks a lot for the video, it was very very helpful. I was worried that I may need to buy more storage but thanks to you I saved my money. I cleared a lot of storage. Thank you!

[@loomonda18]

Thanks for an indepth video about this!! Can you do another video about removing some Adobe files? I have the entire adobe creative cloud and I've noticed a lot of random files associated with it on my computer, but I have no clue what to delete and what to keep (I'm scared to touch anything lol) - would really appreciate it! Thank you!

[@AlexKevv]

Man, thank u so much! You literally saved me 2 years of my life!

[@AndreaArzensek]

Thank you, it worked great. Greetings and happy holidays from Croatia!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

I am glad to hear that 👍 I wish you a Happy New Year!

[@BorisBarroso]

Thanks a lot it really helped me to improve my HD size. I have cleared more than 20GB on my HD

[@adidarmawan507]

this is good and help a lot on managing my mac's storage

[@vlogcalifornia]

Thank you so much for this video. This is really the best video how to clean a space on a Mac.

[@sakhada-7099]

Thanks. I saved around 96gb from my laptop.

[@KH-qt4cj]

The CleanMyMac did not work to free up any space on my MacBook Air. My storage was showing full with only apps. However, when I looked at the apps storage it did not add up to the app storage space indicated through settings. I did not know that the Library folder existed until your video. When you arrived to the part where you said that deleting Application Support will not mess up anything, I deleted it all. I went from having no storage on my MacBook Air and showing that it was all taken up by Apps alone, to having 184.5 GB of storage. There is no discussions found on the Apple website in technical support with any of this information. I have been trying to figure this issue out for weeks. Thank you!

[@AbongileWilli]

Thank you so much, this has been the most helpful video on the subject I've found. Really helpful

[@jpedrovianna]

I got rid of almost 50GB of rubbish on my Mac. Thanks a lot man

[@rainernsa]

Thanks so much. This video did wonders for me. Wiped over 10gb from system data, and 25gb rom other files

[@Ohmz2000]

This video helped me fully erase 40gb of data from apps I had "deleted" before I installed app cleaner. Since I had deleted them normally, A lot of the app's data was still left in the application support folder.. thanks !

[@iveryjohnson402]

Super helpful. Clear 200 GB of System Date by going to the cache folder and delete all my Adobe junk!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Thanks a lot for your positive feedback 🙏 I’m happy my video helped you 👍👨🏼‍💻

[@katier0se]

Thank you so much for this! It was exactly what I needed!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Thank you for your positive comment, I appreciate it 🙏

[@heykaleah]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO BUY A NEW COMPUTER THIS VIDEO SAVED ME!!!!!!!

[@Grade-1234]

Thank you very much. This was very helpful. I highly recommend your channel on this. Thanks!

[@chicagomusicguide]

Great video! Thanks for sharing your time and expertise!

[@essare108]

excellent. subscribed.cleared 3gb

[@fushigi1279]

Thank you for your knowledge! You helped me in deleting unnecessary files on my laptop. Take care! 😀☺

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Thank you very much for your positive feedback 🙏 I’m happy my video helped you! 👍💻

[@borisfellerath2485]

Don't look anywhere else, that's the vidéo you need guys !!!!!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Thanks a lot for your positive feedback 👍👨🏼‍💻

[@TechMyLifeVideo]

11:04 Sonoma clearly has some issue. My System Data is over 1TB, every time I delete a file it just gets added to system data and no space is freed up.

[@DitchTheDietStudio]

Great video, useful! Simple and clear, step by step instructions, easy to follow. Thank you!

[@anisulhoque_vlogs]

Sending lots of love Very informative knowledgeable content ❤

[@joanna9999table]

Thank you so much, i wanna cry, yr video is super useful!!

[@careymogianesi3740]

I’m sure this was helpful for some people but I have a Mac lab at my school that I run myself. The Mac desktops have 1T of storage and almost NONE used. But the OS system runs so slow. The system is slow, the applications are slow, even loading websites is slow with excellent connections. So I just don’t think this salved my issue. Also you should delete orphaned apps from the container. Or at least that’s what I’ve read elsewhere.

[@danieljohnson1213]

What OS is this? The architecture on my mac is already completely different from what you show in the first steps

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

This video has been released more than a year ago. I am already working on a new refreshed version on the same topic. Yet most of the presented techniques in this video will remain the same even on the new macOS.

[@iLVCA]

You made a great and useful video. And you have a really interesting voice a mix of indian and austrian sound and a bit like Arnold. Very original and very useful video

[@kerussoe]

THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU ARE HEAVEN SENT

[@tolga1292]

That is the best video ever on this topic!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Thank you so much 🙏 I’m really happy you like that 👍

[@sombrillasprotectoras4636]

Very helpful!! Thanks!!!! Great job bro!!

[@ruchipandey551]

Thank you so much for the video. It helped me.

[@benjaminkessler3337]

Very helpful video. I seem to have a folder labeled Group Containers and in it there is 70 GB devoted to OneDrive alone... Is this Group Containers folder something that can be deleted?

[@simonh9267]

Hi, great video. In my user library folder there is a folder called "Group Containers" taking up 22gb. Can you delete this? I have about 120gb of System Data on my harddrive, even after following all of your tips :/

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

I am happy that you like the video 🙏 You should not delete anything from a folder "Group Containers". Basically you should not touch most of the folders in system library. I am actually working on a video about macOS folders you should never touch which will be released in few weeks. Hopefully you will like that too. System is normally taking around 30 Gb but having it showing around 100Gb can have many reasons. But most of the time it's just miscalculating some of your personal files and it will get fixed itself.

[@jelenazivkovic3961]

Exactly what I needed!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Great! Hopefully this video will help you clear up your storage 👍💻

[@annabellemilkaseraphine2138]

SIR! Thank you so much for letting me know about this "Library" thing! Actually I'm like; "WTH bro? Just one year I used this laptop but it already run out of space?" And thanks to your video, I realize; the screen recording part actually taking up to 120GB alone. I think I just accidentally turn it on, and yeah this happened 🤣🤣 By the way, just, thank you sir. Besides you help me to realize about the Screen recording thing, your video is also help me save like 10GB 😊

[@goutammanna9207]

Extremely helpful.

[@fabiomatos2376]

hey man tks a lot! I have just done what you said and deleted +/-- 10gbs of my files however my system date passed from 51gbs to 171gbs... is it a bug or viruq in my macbook 12? tks in advance!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

You are very welcome 🙏 I’m happy it helped. Don’t worry about the system data it will need to categorise the files to show correct numbers.

[@kdreamscosmos4279]

If the cache will grow like that, won't it affect ssd? It is even bigger problem than memory swapping.

[@igordegtiarenko7357]

CleanMyMac did save my Mac

[@saqibkhursheed7086]

It was really helpful. Thankyou man ❤

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

I’m happy to hear that 👍 you are very welcome 🙏

[@RoanPhil]

Great video man

[@IamSH1VA]

Thanks for the video, saved me lot of space 🙏☺️

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

I am happy to hear that! 👍

[@mr.wat3rm3l0n]

Thanks that was actually pretty good

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

I’m really happy to hear that 👍👨🏼‍💻

[@bekagelashvili2904]

thank you ... good luck and more such detail information. ....

[@supercoffeebean]

Fantastic! This worked perfectly. Thank you.

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

I’m really happy that it worked! 👍 thank you for your positive feedback 🙏

[@MuhammadAhmad-x9h]

Thanks Bro I killed 150GB of waste from my macbook

[@JoeTheLion1]

Very helpful! Question - recently backed up my iphone to my macbook pro. I see in the Library Modem Scripts folder a lot of files, most have nothing to do with my modem. After the iphone backup, it added a script for Sprint PCS Vision - a phone i had 10 years ago. Perhaps i had a photo taken on that phone that was included in the back-up, that's the only reason I can think of why a super old modem script was added. Can any old moden script in that folder be deleted?

[@alchemical-architecture]

Super helpful. 🙂

[@theverystones2643]

My 1tb drive is entirely full. Have deleted loads of stuff but never shows up as space. I have750 GB of system data !!! It wont show up as anything else. Going mad here! Any help?

[@Serchannel]

awesome content very helpful thank you

[@MaruGenoud-j9f]

Great video!!!! I have lots of storage in my email and whatsapp, any suggestions? thanks!

[@mvp99dba]

very clear instruction . i have 256 gb free on my base m1 mac.

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

I’m glad you like it 🙏 my first Mac was 128 GB and it was always a struggle with space.

[@stepkycopky9354]

This is a brilliant video….perfect

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Thank you so much for your positive comment 🙏💻

[@hackintoshslovakia368]

great tips, thanks !

[@dallas-cole]

Clean my mac is awesome though, thanks for the tips!

[@madhusudann557]

Very helpful

[@andrearojas4984]

Thank you so much! I deleted 792 Gigs!

[@DerailedRockBand]

Thanks for the help!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

You are very welcome 🙏👨🏼‍💻

[@tazbir1cs]

very helpful. thank you..

[@eugeniap.guardado8926]

Hii im trying to download and install big sur on my mac. Tryed deleting some files and it worked at first but then as i deleted it filled up again? It has 70G full and tells me it doesnt have space but i have deleted everything i could? :(

[@feedo]

Great job

[@Neerajxmusic]

I have done everything mentioned in this video and I still have 14GB of SYSTEM DATA

[@BrianKyleMcCord]

That’s a reasonable amount.

[@sandalubuddima]

thanks

[@Carfanaticz09]

Can you help me, i have almost 200GB taken by "other volumes in container" I only have 250GB. I have been trying to update my computer and i cannot because i have no space.

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Try to sort the folders by size as I mentioned in the video and figure out which folder is really taking the most. And see to what apps it’s conected. Than reinstalling the app should help. In general you should not be deleting anything from the containers but if you will not find any other way you will have to remove large files from there or backup your data and reinstall the whole Mac. It’s quite easy to do 👍

[@nikhilgawade5657]

My container folder is of 18GB and 16GB out of which is consumed by just Safari folder inside container What Safari is storing 16GB of?

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Safari might be storing some cached files from websites you have visited, but 16gb is really a lot. You can try to move the large files away from the folder and if it will not influence the functionality you might be able to delete it. 👨🏼‍💻

[@willievander7295]

Thanks

[@dzvideo1146]

best video ever

[@ithoyamai]

I have no apps or files and any documents, the system data just doesn't reduce. it deleted caches and it only added more to my storage

[@alexundefeatedia]

Thanks !

[@kenanbaycan]

can i delete "group containers" folder in library? is it necessary?

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

Hello, in general you should not be deleting anything from the ,,containers” folder. But you can use the technique I mentioned in the video. Simply copy the folder somewhere else as a backup and delete it from the library. You can keep it there for couple of days to see it everything works fine and if you don’t see any issues you can delete it afterwards 👍

[@hubertwooow]

Thanks a lot!

[@OneByteAcademyOfficial]

You are very welcome! 👍👨🏼‍💻

[@JohnDoe-oh8jd]

I've done all of this but theres still 52gb of Other in my Mac. I give up

[@alexnguyen_]

thank you i just cleared up 500gb of cache files from Adobe after effects that i had no idea existed LOL

[@binishouraki-7565]

Thank you so much