How To Delete Unwanted System Data/Other on Your Mac For Free

If you own a Mac computer you may have wondered why it seems almost impossible to delete System Data. There are many paid apps out there which will help clear system data, but this comes at a cost. In this video tutorial I will show you how to view and delete your unwanted system data for free. This is also how you find Adobe's hidden cache files that are not deleted when you use the clear cache function in the apps.

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:34 Reduce Clutter
01:00 Hidden Library
01:22 Calculating Folder Sizes
01:50 Deleting Adobe Cache Example
02:35 iCloud Backups
03:22 Sign off

[FelixSR]

Wow, thank you so much! Just cleaned up over 100GB is Adobe media cache's! Had no idea they were stored there, you are a life saver!

[moneyque]

Best video ever!!!! You saved me so much time and money!!!! I couldn't update my IOS for soooo long because it kept saying i didn't have enough disc space. System data was taking up 85GB and i got it down to 34 with your help. Thank you soooo much

[lusaka]

Thank you Chris - really useful and really easy to follow, even for someone with, ah, limited technical skills. I found an huge zoom video file (60G!) that I didn’t even know I’d recorded! Much appreciated.

[bradenreed]

Hands down the best video I've seen to help with System Data storage. Thank you so much!

[raphaelbocobo]

Thanks Chris, I have enough space to upgrade my MacOSX + more now :)

[allisiux]

i had 255 gb in systemdata, have now only 77 gb, thank you :)

[khrisglaring]

What about user logs? I have about 35 gigs of user logs from my Avid (pro tools) folder but I don't know if it's safe to delete.

[HealthyLivingjd]

i just reset my MacBook to the factory system, open up the computer still shows I have 494gb system out of 500gb, any recommendation? computer have no storage to do anything

[mafiaazul]

Thank you very much! Greetings from Brazil!

[iSeeTicks]

I've been using PC for years and don't remember doing anything like this. My wife has 200gb of shit in her system data. Stupid Apple... hope you rot in hell.

[RamsonHoliday]

I don't think the option "Reduce Cutter" is available in further mac updates, I am concerned why is it removed?
P.S. A lot of ur steps is outdated in recent mac versions as some options as gone

[emilyholliday]

My InDesign won't respond after doing this... Is it a coincidence? I've uninstalled and reinstalled since but no change ! Edit - Fixed this by resetting preferences:)

[jagodaskupien]

I can't see in my Common Folder the Media Caches Files :(

[thealmightycrisprat]

now i just need this for iphone. my 16gb iphone se 1 is suffering massively due to system data.
seriously, there was literally a time where i could only download whatsapp and another where i had just reset my phone and screen recorded the system data section going up

[bakytz]

hi everyone, I did the aforementioned which did help me to free 2GB, thank you Chris. However, System still takes 78GB!!! I literally have 2-3 apps downloaded and lately dont even do much on my laptop, I switched off Photos on Mac but i dont understand How System takes so much space! Please help me, give me any and every advice, thank you so much!

[k-c]

A lot of space is taken up by Google Chrome and VSCode

[fivizzano]

This is ABYSMALLY CRAPPY DESIGN by Apple…

[chrybmb]

i cleared about 20gb of my 100gb of system data this way. without risking to delete anything important, the library files are now 12gb in size, but 80gb of system data still remain un-findable and its making me insane

[Deepak-yjmd]

I am seeing around 600+ GB of system data, followed your steps but didn't find any such app causing this huge size. What else can be checked?

[giustorm]

It doesn't show me the "calculate all sizes" option. Where can I also find this option?