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Prior to cleaning of Mac
To decide what you want to delete, always takes hours. With Mac Optimizer Pro you can easily and automatically searches for garbage files of your Mac.
Use this app to quickly regain the control of your storage. This app will also assist in speed up Mac. Even, you cancreate an interactive map of the drive to find waste items in the storage. For further solutions, see our tips below.
MacBook storage problem is still a big concerning issuein 2022 as well. The inbuilt 1TB storage of the MacBook Air 2020 is not enough for many Mac users. Macgeneratesa lot of content on our devices, and apps which customer use creates a different number of cache files. This is what known as the cryptic category of ‘Other’ storage in the Mac. In latest macOS’s versions, this storage category is named as ‘other volumes in container’
First, know about ‘Other’ Storage and how you will remove this issue from your Mac.
What is ‘Other’ storage in Mac?
Other storage in Mac includes those files which easily do not fall into the clearer category labels like Audio. The types of ’Other’ files include:
- Documents like PDF, .doc, .psd , etc.
- App plugins and extensions..
- System and temporary files of macOS
- Disk archives and images like .zip and .dmg.
- Cache files mainly system cache, user cache, and browser cache
- Also, different things which doesn’t fit in the main macOS categories.
Where is ‘Other’ Storage in a Mac
First, search for your Mac Library. Here, your macOS saves application widgets, compositions and different archive cache. This area of your Mac is hidden from the view because messing up a few folders in this part may break your Mac. But in case of emergency you can search here:
Click on Finder >Go (in the top menu).
Then open: ~/Library/Caches
After opening, these folders are your ‘Other’ storage.Search about data which is possible to delete and make relevant actions.
Tips to delete ‘Other’ Storage on your Mac
You cannotproperly get rid of ‘Other’ storage issue in Mac, but you can definitely free some part this storage space. Now, we are going to discuss aboutdifferent types of ‘Other’ files, and tell you how to clean up Mac of yours. Here are some tips which further aid you in deleting useless documents, system slowing cache files,junk system files, old backups, and other types of junk.
For this purpose you can also our best Mac cleaner. It will easily help you to clean ‘other’ storage issue within just clicks. Mac Optimizer Pro is created to optimize your Mac in a significant way. But, first stick to the tips:
- Remove documents from ‘Other’ Storage
Pure text documents acquire a big amount of space, and you mayget shocked by knowing the size of some .pages and .csv files. It later create problems at the time of adding images, downloading e-books, and also when you create presentation. Because at that time space will run out to save your essentials.
Follow these steps to remove unneeded documents from ‘other’ storage:
- On your desktop, press Command – F.
- Click This Mac.
- Click on first dropdown menu field and select
- From the Search Attributes window, tick File Size and File Extension.
- Search for different document file types (.pdf, .pages, etc.) and file sizes to find large documents.
- Review those data and delete as needed.
- Clean up ‘Other’ space of the system
The macOS creates and increase up system files automatically because sometimes system wants these files, but due to the nature of quickly outdating those apss just remain there and wasting the disk space. Also, these are also lies in the ‘Other’ Mac storage category. These files are usually temporary, but never actually removed from the storage unless you take some relevant action about it.
To manually found and remove these app cache and files from ‘other’ storage, navigate to ~/Users/User/Library/Application Support/. In this folder, you will easilyget your desired applications and data, which you want to remove.
However, if you do not have leisure time then you easily get rid-off with these file. For that, you should use Mac Optimizer Pro. In just some clicks you can easily free-up your ‘other’ storage. It is a best Mac cleaner.
- Delete cache files from the ‘Other’ data section
Cache files are one of the worst offenders, often acquire GBs of precious space in Mac. Browser cache, user cache, and system cache are meant to help your system work faster, but they get bigger and bigger with the time, which further leads to slow down Mac system. With the option of clearing that, users may easily speed up mac of theirs and delete ‘Other’ storage issue as well.
- Clear‘Other’ space of archives and disk images
Archives and images are those files which you keep for a purpose. If you think you might have stored some useless .zip and .dmg files on your Mac, then delete them out as well.
You can find these files using Spotlight search:
- Open Finder.
- Type DMG/ZIP in search field.
- Search: This Mac.
- Sort the results by Size.
After that, Finder will show you all files of the format,which you have specified and sort by size. You can delete those files, which is no longer needed.
