Booting in Safe mode will hopefully get rid of some of this gunk, reducing the impact on your storage. Once that’s done, and if you’re in luck, heading to About This Mac | Storage will show that the System section has been massively reduced.īut how? Apple is tight-lipped about what actually makes up System, but the consensus online is that it’s full of caches (data that’s stored so it can be served more quickly). Now comes the slightly strange bit: immediately restart your Mac normally.
Once that’s done, you’ll see the icon below in the top-right of the login screen. If so, the progress bar will take significantly longer (think three to five minutes) to load that with a normal restart. We’d hazard a guess that you’ve never done this before. When everything starts to disappear from your desktop, hold down Shift and don’t release it until you see a white Apple logo and progress bar on a black background. This is simple to do, but it’s best to wait until you’ve got a spare ten minutes as it can take a while.Ĭlick the Apple icon in the top-left of the screen and select “Restart…”.
#REDUCE MAC SYSTEM STORAGE HOW TO#
If so, read on… How to reduce Mac system storageįirst, you’ll have to boot your Mac into something called “Safe mode”. You’ll see that the System section is gradually broken down into smaller sections (such as iCloud), but chances are that a hefty chunk will still be greyed out. One trick is to get to the Storage breakdown shown above and then wait for a few minutes.
NOTE: The problem’s probably not as bad as you think it is. To be honest, it’s a bit of a brute-force solution, but, according to numerous users online, it’s the one Apple has recommended in the past. Days of delving around internet forums yielded no useful answers – until I finally stumbled upon a simple fix that reduced the system section by over 20GB.
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