It would be unwise to delete the vast majority of your System files, but there are a few that you can probably do without, such as Time Machine snapshots, iOS backups, and so on. We explain How to delete Other on a Mac in a separate article though. That isn’t something you can do easily – and nor should you. You may be wondering if you can delete Other. In some cases they can be – but you have to be careful. With a name like Other it’s no wonder that people are adssuming this is redundant files that can be deleted. We’ve heard of people having even more than 40GB Other storage. If you are using an older version of macOS – which may well be the case if your Mac is a bit older and unable to support new versions – you may be confronted with almost 40GB of ‘Other’ (as we were, see below). Nowadays these types of files tend to fall under the label macOS (as seen above). Older versions of macOS had some strangely named divisions of storage including System and Other. If you are running out of space your Mac could be slowing down, which is bad enough, but if you run out of space on your Mac you may not even be able to start it up! Before you get to that stage take a look to see what it taking up the space on your Mac because that will determine what you should delete. How to see what’s taking up space on your Mac This might recover a few GB for you, and if that’s all you need then job done! But if you need to get a lot more space, and if you want to avoid running low on space again then follow the steps below. Now the final and most important step: Right-click on your Trash/Bin and choose Empty Trash/Empty Bin (we are doing this last as we’ve just added lots to the Trash!).You could do the same with other files on your Desktop (it’s where most things end up after all). You can click and drag these to the Trash/Bin. Click on it to open it up and then select as many Screenshots as you are comfortable deleting. Another way to delete screenshots is to go to your Desktop and if you haven’t already done so go to the menu and choose View > Use Stacks (you’ll need to have the Desktop selected).Select those you want to delete and choose Move to Bin/Trash. Alternatively sort by Kind to quickly locate all the Screenshots (which will be PNG files). Sort by Size and delete anything you don’t need that’s particularly large. Open the Finder again and choose the Desktop folder. If you are anything like us your Desktop is a dumping ground.Select and right-click on files you are sure you won’t need again and choose Move to Bin/Trash. Instead of ‘is’ choose ‘before’ and change the date to a year ago.
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